Establishment and adjustment of monsoon-driven circulation in the South China Sea

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 173-181

  Wang, Dongxiao ^a,c   Wang, Weiqiang ^a,b   Shi, Ping ^a   Guo, Peifang ^b   Gan, Zijun ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^c Guangzhou Institute of Tropical and Oceanic Meteorology   (China)

Author keywords

Coastal trappes Kelvin wanes; Monsoonal circulation; Rossby waves; South China Sea

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ENGINEERING; OCEAN ENGINEERING; WATER WAVES;

KELVIN WAVES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; KELVIN WAVE; MONSOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; ROSSBY WAVE;

SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 0042890327     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/03yd9016     Document Type: Article

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