Predicted positions of tidal fronts in continental shelf of South China Sea

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	Predicted positions of tidal fronts in continental shelf of South China Sea
	Tong, JQ ; Gan, ZJ ; Qi, YQ ; Mao, QW
刊名	JOURNAL OF MARINE SYSTEMS
	2010
卷号	82 期号:3 页码:145-153
关键词	Tidal front Chl-a front Continental shelf South China Sea
ISSN号	0924-7963
通讯作者	jqtong@scsio.ac.cn
中文摘要	Based on the tidal simulation of ECOMSED, the Simpson-Hunter(S-H) stratification parameter is calculated to study the tidal fronts in the continental shelf of the South China Sea (SCS). The results show that, besides the tidal fronts around the Hainan Island which have been studied by Hu et al. (2003) [Hu, J.Y., Kawamura, H., Tang, D.L., 2003. Tidal front around the Hainan Island, northwest of the South China Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research 108(C11), 3342, doi:10.1029/2003JC001883], there are also five tidal fronts in the south of Taiwan Strait (ST'S), Pearl River estuary (PRE), Mekong River estuary (MRE), southwestern coast of Vietnam (SCV) and northern coast of east Malaysia (NCEM), and they are consistent with Chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) fronts detected by SeaWiFS. The positions of predicted tidal fronts in the STS and PRE are also consistent with those of sea surface temperature (SST) fronts. The criterion value of S-H, 2.6-2.7, should be used for prediction of tidal fronts in the MRE and 2.2-2.4 in the NCEM. Further studies show that tidal mixing can be considered as one of the main causes of the formation of Chl-a fronts in those five coastal sea areas, and the M-2 tidal constituent plays an important role in tidal mixing in the STS, PRE, MRE and NCEM while both K-1 and O-1 play important roles in tidal mixing in the SCV. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
学科主题	Geosciences, Multidisciplinary; Marine & Freshwater Biology; Oceanography
收录类别	SCI
原文出处	ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
WOS记录号	WOS:000279412500006
公开日期	2011-07-03
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.scsio.ac.cn/handle/344004/6279]
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	Tong, JQ,Gan, ZJ,Qi, YQ,et al. Predicted positions of tidal fronts in continental shelf of South China Sea[J]. JOURNAL OF MARINE SYSTEMS,2010,82(3):145-153.
APA	Tong, JQ,Gan, ZJ,Qi, YQ,&Mao, QW.(2010).Predicted positions of tidal fronts in continental shelf of South China Sea.JOURNAL OF MARINE SYSTEMS,82(3),145-153.
MLA	Tong, JQ,et al."Predicted positions of tidal fronts in continental shelf of South China Sea".JOURNAL OF MARINE SYSTEMS 82.3(2010):145-153.