Seasonal variability of the Yellow Sea/East China Sea surface fluxes and thermohaline structure

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-20

  Chu, Peter ^a   Chen, Yuchun ^b   Kuninaka, Akira ^a  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

East China Sea; Fresh water flux; Seasonal variability; Surface net heat flux; Thermohaline structure; Yellow Sea

Indexed keywords

EID: 12944250732     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02930865     Document Type: Article

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