Why are there upwellings on the northern shelf of Taiwan under northeasterly winds?

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1405-1417

  Chang, Yu Lin ^a,b   Oey, Lie Yauw ^a   Wu, Chau Ron ^b   Lu, Hung Fu ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Currents; Jets; Upwelling; Wind

Indexed keywords

CURRENTS; CYCLONIC VORTICITY; EAST CHINA SEA; EKMAN TRANSPORT; KUROSHIO; NUMERICAL MODELS; TOTAL VARIATION; UPWELLING; VERTICAL MOTIONS; VORTICITY FIELD;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; OCEAN CURRENTS;

VORTICITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE; EKMAN TRANSPORT; JET FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHELF BREAK; SHELF DYNAMICS; UPWELLING; VERTICAL MOVEMENT; VORTICITY; WESTERLY; WIND DIRECTION; WIND FIELD; WIND VELOCITY;

EAST CHINA SEA; KUROSHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; TAIWAN;

EID: 77955615988     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO4348.1     Document Type: Article

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