Seasonal features of the Sverdrup circulation in the South China Sea

Progress in Natural Science

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 205-206

  Liu, Qinyu ^a   Yang, Haijun ^a   Liu, Zhengyu ^b  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Seasonal variation; Sverdrup relation; The South China Sea

Indexed keywords

BASIN SCALE; CLIMATOLOGICAL WINDS; NON-UNIFORM; OCEANIC CIRCULATIONS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SVERDRUP RELATION; SVERDRUP TRANSPORT; THE SOUTH CHINA SEA; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

SURFACE WATERS;

EID: 0348173145     PISSN: 10020071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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