Seasonal upper circulation in the Sulu Sea from satellite altimetry data and a numerical model

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Cai, Shuqun ^a   He, Yinghui ^a,b   Wang, Shengan ^a   Long, Xiaomin ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; SURFACE STRUCTURE; VORTICITY; WIND STRESS;

ABSOLUTE DYNAMIC TOPOGRAPHY; ANTICYCLONIC CIRCULATION; CURRENT FIELDS; CYCLONIC CIRCULATION; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION ANALYSIS; LAYER CURRENTS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL MODELS; RELATIVE VORTICITY; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY DATA; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; SINGLE LAYER; SUMMER MONSOON; SURFACE CIRCULATION; TWO LAYER MODEL; UPPER LAYER; WATER TRANSPORT; WINTER MONSOON;

NANOFLUIDICS;

ANTICYCLONE; CYCLONE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MEANDER; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; VORTICITY; WIND STRESS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SULU SEA;

EID: 67649213360     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JC005109     Document Type: Article

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