Connecting the tropical Pacific with Indian Ocean through South China Sea

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Qu, Tangdong ^a   Du, Yan ^a   Meyers, Gary ^b   Ishida, Akio ^c   Wang, Dongxiao ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OSCILLATIONS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; WATER WAVES; WIND;

HEAT TRANSPORT; HIGH-RESOLUTION GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION;

GEOPHYSICS;

WATER MASS;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 32644440956     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024698     Document Type: Article

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