Terrigenous transportation to the Okinawa Trough and the influence of typhoons on suspended sediment concentration

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 30, Issue 10-11, 2010, Pages 1189-1199

  Bian, Changwei ^a   Jiang, Wensheng ^a   Song, Dehai ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

East China Seas; Okinawa Trough; Suspended sediment concentration; Terrigenous transportation; Typhoon

Indexed keywords

EPISODIC EVENT; PARTICULATE FLUX; SALINITY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TERRIGENOUS DEPOSIT; THERMOCLINE; TURBIDITY; TYPHOON;

CHINA; EAST CHINA SEA; KUROSHIO CURRENT; OKINAWA TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN; SHANDONG; YANGTZE RIVER; YELLOW RIVER DELTA;

EID: 77953128718     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2010.03.008     Document Type: Article

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