The age of Yellow River water in the Bohai Sea

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Liu, Zhe ^a   Wang, Haiyan ^a,b   Guo, Xinyu ^b   Wang, Qiang ^c   Gao, Huiwang ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOHAI SEA; LARGE RIVERS; LIAODONG BAY; MEAN AGES; OLD WATER; PARTICLE-TRACKING METHOD; RESIDENCE TIME; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIDAL FORCING; TIME-SCALES; WATER PARTICLES; WIND FORCING; YELLOW RIVER; YELLOW RIVER ESTUARY; YELLOW SEA;

RIVERS;

ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIVER DISCHARGE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TIMESCALE; TRACKING; WIND FORCING;

BOHAI SEA; CHINA; LIAODONG BAY; LIAONING; PACIFIC OCEAN; YELLOW RIVER; YELLOW SEA;

EID: 84869433395     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JC008263     Document Type: Article

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