Dramatic impact of the South China Sea on the Indonesian throughflow

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Tozuka, Tomoki ^a   Qu, Tangdon ^b   Yamagata, Toshio ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT TRANSFER; WATER WAVES;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA THROUGHFLOW;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

CLIMATE VARIATION; HEAT TRANSFER; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUBSURFACE FLOW; THROUGHFLOW;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDONESIA; INDONESIAN SEAS; MAKASSAR STRAIT; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 38849209862     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030420     Document Type: Article

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