Weakest winter South China Sea western boundary current caused by the 2015-2016 El Niño event

2016 ◽  
Vol 121 (10) ◽  
pp. 7673-7682 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruixiang Zhao ◽  
Xiao-Hua Zhu
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
El Niño ◽  
El Nino ◽  
Western Boundary Current ◽  
Western Boundary ◽  
Boundary Current ◽  
China Sea ◽  
El Niño Event

scholarly journals Observed evidence of the anomalous South China Sea western boundary current during the summers of 2010 and 2011

2016 ◽  
Vol 121 (2) ◽  
pp. 1145-1159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yeqiang Shu ◽  
Huijie Xue ◽  
Dongxiao Wang ◽  
Qiang Xie ◽  
Ju Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
Western Boundary Current ◽  
Western Boundary ◽  
Boundary Current ◽  
China Sea

scholarly journals Buoyancy Effect on the Winter South China Sea Western Boundary Current

2019 ◽  
Vol 124 (10) ◽  
pp. 6871-6885
Author(s):  
Yunwei Yan ◽  
Guihua Wang ◽  
Huijie Xue ◽  
Fei Chai
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
Western Boundary Current ◽  
Western Boundary ◽  
Buoyancy Effect ◽  
Boundary Current ◽  
China Sea

scholarly journals The Eddy–Mean Flow Interaction and the Intrusion of Western Boundary Current into the South China Sea–Type Basin in an Idealized Model

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (8) ◽  
pp. 2493-2527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linhao Zhong ◽  
Lijuan Hua ◽  
Dehai Luo
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
Relative Vorticity ◽  
Western Boundary Current ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
Western Boundary ◽  
Loop Current ◽  
Subgrid Scale ◽  
Boundary Current ◽  
China Sea

AbstractIn this paper, an ideal model of the role of mesoscale eddies in the Kuroshio intruding into the South China Sea (SCS) is developed, which represents the northwestern Pacific and the SCS as two rectangular basins connected by a gap. In the case of considering only intrinsic ocean variability, a time-dependent western boundary current (WBC) driven by steady wind is modeled under both eddy-resolving and noneddy-resolving resolutions. Almost all simulated WBCs intrude into the adjacent sea in the form of the Loop Current with multiple-state transitions and eddy-shedding processes, which have aperiodic variations on intraseasonal or interannual scales, determined by the eddy-induced WBC variation. For the parameters considered in this paper, the WBC intrusion exhibits a 30–90-day cycle in the presence of the subgrid-scale eddy forcing (SSEF) but a 300–500-day cycle in the absence of SSEF. Moreover, the roles of the grid-scale and subgrid-scale eddies in the WBC intrusion are studied by using the dynamically consistent decomposition developed by Berloff. Based on the large-sample composite analysis of the intrusion events, it is found that the Loop Current intensity is mainly determined by baroclinic processes through grid-scale, eddy–eddy interaction and subgrid-scale, eddy–flow interaction. The intrusion position and period are mainly regulated by the SSEF to the west of gap, where the balance between relative vorticity and isopycnal thickness SSEFs determines eddy detachment. Generally, the relative vorticity SSEF therein tends to induce WBC intrusion. However, the isopycnal thickness SSEF tends to induce eddy shedding, and WBC retreat thus determines the intrusion cycle through counteracting relative vorticity SSEF.

A review on the South China Sea western boundary current

2012 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guohong Fang ◽  
Gang Wang ◽  
Yue Fang ◽  
Wendong Fang
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
Western Boundary Current ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
Western Boundary ◽  
Boundary Current ◽  
The South ◽  
China Sea

scholarly journals Biogeography of N 2 Fixation Influenced by the Western Boundary Current Intrusion in the South China Sea

2019 ◽  
Vol 124 (10) ◽  
pp. 6983-6996
Author(s):  
Yangyang Lu ◽  
Zuozhu Wen ◽  
Dalin Shi ◽  
Wenfang Lin ◽  
Sophie Bonnet ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
Western Boundary Current ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
Western Boundary ◽  
Boundary Current ◽  
The South ◽  
China Sea

Features and variability of the South China Sea western boundary current from 1992 to 2011

2016 ◽  
Vol 66 (6-7) ◽  
pp. 795-810 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Quan ◽  
Huijie Xue ◽  
Huiling Qin ◽  
Xuezhi Zeng ◽  
Shiqiu Peng
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
Western Boundary Current ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
Western Boundary ◽  
Boundary Current ◽  
The South ◽  
China Sea
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