Variable temperature, salinity and water mass structures in the southwestern Taiwan Strait in summer

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 31, Issue SUPPL.6, 2011, Pages

  Hu, Jianyu ^a   Hong, Huasheng ^a   Li, Yan ^a   Jiang, Yuwu ^a   Chen, Zhaozhang ^a   Zhu, Jia ^a   Wan, Zhenwen ^a   Sun, Zhenyu ^a   Liang, Hongxing ^b  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Fujian Institute of Oceanology   (China)

Author keywords

Salinity; Southwestern Taiwan Strait; Temperature; Upwelling; Variability

Indexed keywords

COASTAL CIRCULATION; COASTAL ZONE; DATA SET; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UPWELLING; WATER MASS; WIND FIELD;

CHINA; DONGSHAN; FUJIAN; TAIWAN STRAIT;

EID: 84866545135     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2011.02.003     Document Type: Article

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