Impacts of the South China Sea Throughflow on seasonal and interannual variations of the Indonesian Throughflow

Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans

Volumn 47, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 73-85

  Tozuka, Tomoki ^a   Qu, Tangdong ^b   Masumoto, Yukio ^a,c   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

El Ni o Southern Oscillation (ENSO); Indonesian Throughflow; Seasonal variation; South China Sea

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; HEAT TRANSFER; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY;

BOREAL WINTERS; CLIMATE VARIABILITIES; FLOW-THROUGH; HEAT TRANSPORTS; INDONESIAN THROUGHFLOW; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; PACIFIC OCEANS; SEASONAL AND INTERANNUAL VARIATIONS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOUTH CHINA SEA; THROUGHFLOW;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEASONAL VARIATION; THROUGHFLOW; WINTER;

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

EID: 60849126961     PISSN: 03770265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2008.09.001     Document Type: Article

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