Climate modulates internal wave activity in the Northern South China Sea

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 831-838

  Decarlo, Thomas M ^a   Karnauskas, Kristopher B ^b   Davis, Kristen A ^c   Wong, George T F ^d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d RESEARCH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

climate change; coral reefs; internal waves

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATE MODELS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; REEFS;

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTIVITY; CORAL REEF; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTERNAL WAVE ACTIVITY; INTERNAL WAVES; NORTHERN SOUTH CHINA SEA; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATIONS; OCEAN DATA ASSIMILATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CLIMATE EFFECT; CORAL REEF; DATA ASSIMILATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; INTERNAL WAVE; RADIATIVE FORCING; STRATIFICATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER COLUMN; WAVE PROPAGATION;

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

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84925164479     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL062522     Document Type: Article

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