Identification of different types of Kuroshio intrusion into the South China Sea

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1291-1304

  Nan, Feng ^a,b   Xue, Huijie ^a   Chai, Fei ^a   Shi, Lei ^a   Shi, Maochong ^b   Guo, Peifang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Current loop; Kuroshio intrusion; South China Sea; Vorticity

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE DYNAMIC TOPOGRAPHY; ABSOLUTE VORTICITY; BAROCLINIC; CURRENT LOOP; GEOSTROPHIC VORTICITY; GLOBAL ANALYSIS; HYBRID COORDINATE OCEAN MODELS; KUROSHIO; KUROSHIO INTRUSION; LOOPING PATHS; PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE; RELATIVE VORTICITY; SATELLITE DATA; SIMILAR ANALYSIS; SOUTH CHINA SEA; STANDARD DEVIATION; SUBSURFACE WATERS;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; VORTICITY;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

BAROCLINIC MOTION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; INFLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CURRENT; OUTFLOW; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VORTICITY;

KUROSHIO CURRENT; LUZON STRAIT; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 81255137961     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-011-0426-3     Document Type: Article

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