Interactions among the winter monsoon, ocean eddy and ocean thermal front in the South China Sea

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Guihua ^a   Li, Jiaxun ^a,b   Wang, Chunzai ^c   Yan, Yunwei ^a  

^a SECOND INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (China)

^b PLA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; WIND STRESS;

ANOMALOUS WINDS; BOREAL WINTERS; CYCLONIC OCEAN EDDIES; HEAT ADVECTION; NORTHEAST MONSOON; OCEAN EDDIES; OCEAN FRONT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTH CHINA SEA; SST ANOMALIES; THERMAL FRONTS; WIND STRESS CURL; WINTER MONSOON;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ADVECTION; CYCLONE; EDDY; ISLAND; MONSOON; MOUNTAIN REGION; OCEANIC FRONT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THERMOHALINE STRUCTURE; WINTER;

LUZON; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHILIPPINES; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 84864851817     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JC008007     Document Type: Article

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