Response of the cold water mass in the western South China Sea to the wind stress curl associated with the summer monsoon

Acta Oceanologica Sinica

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1-13

  Zhuang, Wei ^a   Wang, Dongxiao ^a   Hu, Jianyu ^b   Ni, Wensheng ^c  

^a SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China   (China)

Author keywords

Seasonal upwelling; Vietnam; Wind stress curl

Indexed keywords

COLD WATER; EKMAN TRANSPORT; GYRE; LOW TEMPERATURE; MONSOON; VORTICITY; WATER MASS; WIND STRESS;

ASIA; EURASIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIET NAM;

EID: 33750130843     PISSN: 0253505X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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