Review on current and seawater volume transport through the Taiwan Strait

Journal of Oceanography

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 591-610

  Hu, Jianyu ^a,b   Kawamura, Hiroshi ^b   Li, Chunyan ^c,d   Hong, Huasheng ^a   Jiang, Yuwu ^a,b  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SHANGHAI OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

current pattern; Review; seawater transport; summer; Taiwan Strait; winter

Indexed keywords

CURRENT VELOCITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CURRENT; SEAWATER; SUMMER; VOLUME TRANSPORT; WATER MASS; WINTER;

TAIWAN STRAIT;

EID: 77956858148     PISSN: 09168370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10872-010-0049-1     Document Type: Review

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