The correlation of the surface circulation between the Western Pacific and the South China Sea from satellite altimetry data

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	The correlation of the surface circulation between the Western Pacific and the South China Sea from satellite altimetry data
	He, YH ; Cai, SQ ; Wang, SA
刊名	INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING
	2010
卷号	31 期号:17-18 页码:4757-4778
ISSN号	0143-1161
通讯作者	caisq@scsio.ac.cn
中文摘要	Fifteen years of satellite altimetry data are used to study the correlation of the surface circulation between the Western Pacific and the South China Sea (SCS) based on the Singular Value Decomposition method. There is a high correlation between the circulation of the SCS and the North Equatorial Current (NEC) current system. In summer/winter, the sea surface height (SSH) of the NEC rises/falls while the two SCS sub-basin-scale eddies are anti-cyclonic/cyclonic. It reveals both annual and eight-year variability in the circulation. The NEC bifurcation latitude is highly correlated with the water exchange via the Luzon Strait (LS) and the Luzon Cyclonic Eddy (LCE). When the NEC bifurcation latitude moves northward/southward, the water exchange via the LS increases/reduces and the SSH of the LCE reduces/increases. The annual mean number of eddies propagating westward into the Western Pacific within (121135 degrees E, 1525 degrees N) is about 1827 with a 34 year fluctuation. No eddy is found to propagate into the SCS via the LS from the Western Pacific, and the eddy density is defined to show the different distributions between the cyclonic eddies (CEs) and anti-cyclonic eddies (ACEs) in the north-eastern SCS and north-western Pacific, and the difference in the concentration and interaction with the Kuroshio between the CEs and the ACEs is also discussed. The monthly statistics of the number, tracks, lifetimes and moving speeds etc. of the eddies in the north-western Pacific are also shown.
学科主题	Remote Sensing; Imaging Science & Photographic Technology
收录类别	SCI
原文出处	TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
WOS记录号	WOS:000282579100019
公开日期	2011-07-03
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.scsio.ac.cn/handle/344004/6219]
专题	南海海洋研究所_热带海洋环境国家重点实验室(LTO)
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	He, YH,Cai, SQ,Wang, SA. The correlation of the surface circulation between the Western Pacific and the South China Sea from satellite altimetry data[J]. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING,2010,31(17-18):4757-4778.
APA	He, YH,Cai, SQ,&Wang, SA.(2010).The correlation of the surface circulation between the Western Pacific and the South China Sea from satellite altimetry data.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING,31(17-18),4757-4778.
MLA	He, YH,et al."The correlation of the surface circulation between the Western Pacific and the South China Sea from satellite altimetry data".INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING 31.17-18(2010):4757-4778.