Deep Western Boundary Current in the South China Sea

Deep western boundary current (DWBC) was observed for the first time by an array of 6 current meter moorings southeast of the Zhongsha Islands in the South China Sea (SCS) deep basin during the period from August 2012 to January 2014. In the mean, the DWBC in the SCS flows southwestward with core ve...

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Autores principales: Zhou, Chun, Zhao, Wei, Tian, Jiwei, Zhao, Xiaolong, Zhu, Yuchao, Yang, Qingxuan, Qu, Tangdong
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5570915/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28839249
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-09436-2
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author Zhou, Chun
Zhao, Wei
Tian, Jiwei
Zhao, Xiaolong
Zhu, Yuchao
Yang, Qingxuan
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description Deep western boundary current (DWBC) was observed for the first time by an array of 6 current meter moorings southeast of the Zhongsha Islands in the South China Sea (SCS) deep basin during the period from August 2012 to January 2014. In the mean, the DWBC in the SCS flows southwestward with core velocity of 2.0 cm/s and a volume transport of 1.65 Sv (1 Sv = 1 × 10(6) m(3)/s). Its temporal variability is dominated by intraseasonal fluctuations with period around 90 days. The main axis of the DWBC, characterized by a low temperature core, tends not to shift with the 90-day fluctuation.
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spelling pubmed-55709152017-09-01 Deep Western Boundary Current in the South China Sea Zhou, Chun Zhao, Wei Tian, Jiwei Zhao, Xiaolong Zhu, Yuchao Yang, Qingxuan Qu, Tangdong Sci Rep Article Deep western boundary current (DWBC) was observed for the first time by an array of 6 current meter moorings southeast of the Zhongsha Islands in the South China Sea (SCS) deep basin during the period from August 2012 to January 2014. In the mean, the DWBC in the SCS flows southwestward with core velocity of 2.0 cm/s and a volume transport of 1.65 Sv (1 Sv = 1 × 10(6) m(3)/s). Its temporal variability is dominated by intraseasonal fluctuations with period around 90 days. The main axis of the DWBC, characterized by a low temperature core, tends not to shift with the 90-day fluctuation. Nature Publishing Group UK 2017-08-24 /pmc/articles/PMC5570915/ /pubmed/28839249 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-09436-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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