The South China Sea through flow retrieved from climatological data

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 753-767

  Yaremchuk, Max ^a,b   McCreary Jr , Julian ^a   Yu, Zuojun ^a   Furue, Ryo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA; GLOBAL OCEAN; INVERSE MODELING; MEAN FLOW; NORTH PACIFIC TROPICAL WATERS; NUMERICAL MODELS; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES; SALINITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SOUTH CHINA SEA; TAIWAN STRAITS; THERMOHALINE STRUCTURES; THROUGHFLOW; TIME VARIATIONS;

INVERSE PROBLEMS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY;

SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

CLIMATOLOGY; ESTIMATION METHOD; INFLOW; INVERSE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OUTFLOW; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SALINITY; THERMOHALINE STRUCTURE; WATER FLOW;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LUZON STRAIT; MIMAROPA; MINDORO STRAIT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PHILIPPINES; SOUTH CHINA SEA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TAIWAN STRAIT;

EID: 67649939216     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JPO3955.1     Document Type: Article

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