Interannual variability of the South China Sea throughflow inferred from wind data and an ocean data assimilation product

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 14, 2006, Pages

  Wang, Dongxiao ^a   Liu, Qinyan ^a   Huang, Rui Xin ^b   Du, Yan ^c   Qu, Tangdong ^c  

^a SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; OCEAN CURRENTS; WIND STRESS;

INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; OCEAN DATA; WIND DATA;

WATERWAY TRANSPORTATION;

ANNUAL VARIATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; EL NINO; OCEAN; THROUGHFLOW; WIND; WIND STRESS;

ASIA; EURASIA; LUZON STRAIT; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 33845651692     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026316     Document Type: Article

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