Effects of the Yellow Sea Warm Current on the winter temperature distribution in a numerical model

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 111, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Ma, Jian ^a,b   Qiao, Fangli ^a   Xia, Changshui ^a   Kim, Chang S ^c  

^a FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BATHYMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TIDES; WATER WAVES;

ADVECTION; BATHYMETRY; HEAT BALANCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CURRENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; YELLOW SEA;

EID: 34548545307     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JC003171     Document Type: Article

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