Numerical study of the ocean circulation on the East China Sea shelf and a Kuroshio bottom branch northeast of Taiwan in summer

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Yang, Dezhou ^a,b   Yin, Baoshu ^a   Liu, Zhiliang ^a   Feng, Xingru ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

BRANCH CURRENTS; EAST CHINA SEA; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS; HINDCASTS; KUROSHIO; MODEL RESULTS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN MODEL; PACIFIC OCEAN; PARTICLE EXPERIMENTS; SUBSURFACE WATERS; TAIWAN STRAITS; VOLUME TRANSPORT; ZHEJIANG PROVINCE;

SALINE WATER;

HINDCASTING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SALINITY; SHELF BREAK; SUMMER; TRACER; VOLUME TRANSPORT;

CHINA; EAST CHINA SEA; JAPAN; KOREA STRAIT; KUROSHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; TAIWAN; TAIWAN STRAIT; TSUSHIMA STRAIT; ZHEJIANG;

EID: 79958047260     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006777     Document Type: Article

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