Barrier layer in the northeastern South China Sea and its formation mechanism

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 472-479

  Pan, Aijun ^a   Wan, Xiaofang ^a   Xu, Jindian ^a   Guo, Xiaogang ^a   Li, Li ^a  

^a SOA Fujian Collaborative Innovation Center for Exploitation and Utilization of Marine Biological Resources Key Laboratory of Marine Genetic   (China)

Author keywords

Barrier layer; Luzon Strait; Ocean stratification; Rainfall; South China Sea

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748864208     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-006-0472-2     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Peter Chu, Qinyu Liu, Yinglai Jia et al., Evidence of a barrier in the Sulu and Celebes Seas, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2002, 32: 3299-3309.
2. Lindstorm, E., Lukas, R., Fine, R. et al., The Western Equatorial Pacific Ocean circulation study, Nature, 1987, 330: 533-537.
3. Godfrey, J. S., Lindstorm, E., The heat budget of the equatorial western Pacific surface surface mixed layer, Journal of the Geophysical Research, 1989,94(C6): 8007-8017.
4. Wu Wei, Tomczak, M., Fang Xinhua, Barrier Layer in the southern South China Sea, Chinese Science Bulletin, 2001, 46(7): 590-594.
5. Lukas, R., Lindstorm, E., The mixed layer of the western equatorial Pacific Ocean, Journal of Geophysical Research, 1991, 96: 3343-3357.
6. Sprintall, J., Tomczak, M., Evidence of the barrier layer in the surface layer of the tropics, Journal of Geophysical Research, 1992, 97 (C5): 7305-7316.
7. Feng, M., Hacker, P., Lukas, R., Upper ocean beat and salt balances in response to a westerly wind burst in the western equatorial Pacific during TOGA COARE, Journal of Geophysical Research, 1998, 105(C5): 10289-10311.
8. You, Y., Rain-formed barrier layer of the western equatorial Pacific Warm Pool: A case study, Journal of Geophysical Research, 1998, 103(C3): 5361-5378.
9. Vialand, J., Delecluse, P., An OGCM study for the TOGA decade, Part I: Role of salinity in the physics of the western Pacific fresh pool, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 1998, 28: 1071-1088.
10. Swenson, M. S., Hanson, D. V., Tropical Pacific Ocean mixed layer budget: The Pacific cold tongue, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 1999, 29: 69-81.
11. Kara, A. B., Rochford, P., Hurlburt, A. H. E., Mixed layer depth variability and barrier layer formation over the North Pacific Ocean, Journal of Geophysical Research, 2000, 105: 16783-16801.
12. Zhu Liangsheng, Qiu Zhang, Seasonal distribution and variation of barrier layer and its influence upon the vertical heat diffusion in the southern South China Sea, Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2002, 24(s1): 171-178.
13. Du Yan, Wang Dongxiao, Shi Ping et al., Seasonal Variation of the Barrier Layer in the South China Sea and Its Relationship to the Sea Surface Flux, Chinese Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 2004, 28(1): 101-111.
14. Jia Xujing, Liu Qinyu, Sun Jilin, A comparison between two Different Definitions of the Mixlayer and the Thermocline in the South China Sea, Transactions of Oceanology and Limnology, 2001, (1): 1-7.
15. Research Group of the Circulation in northeastern South China Sea, Study on the Circulation in Northeastern South China Sea, Oceanography in China (Vol. 6) (in Chinese), Beijing: China Ocean Press, 1996, 109.
16. Xu Jianping, Su Jilan, Hydrographic analysis on the intrusion of the Kuroshio into the South China Sea II. Observational Results during the Cruise from August to September in 1994, Tropic Oceanology, 1997, 16(2): 1-22.
17. Xu Jindian, Lili, Guo Xiaogang et al., Multi-Eddy Features of South China Sea Circulation around onset of Summer Monsoon in 1998, Journal of Tropical Oceanography, 2001, (1): 44-51.
18. Wentz, F. J., Gentemann, C., Smith, D. et al., Satellite measurements of sea surface temperature through clouds, Science, 2000, 288: 847-850.
19. Jia Yinglai, Liu Qinyu, Eddy Shedding from the Kuroshio Bend at Luzon Strait, Journal of Oceanography, 2004, 60 (6): 1063-1069.
20. Wang Dongxiao, Zhou Faxiu, Li Yongping, On the features in the annual cycle of SST and surface heat budget in the South China Sea, Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 1996, 15(1): 111-125.