Coupling and propagating of mesoscale sea level variability between the western Pacific and the South China Sea

2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (12) ◽  
pp. 1699-1707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Li ◽  
ChunSheng Jing ◽  
DaYong Zhu
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
South China ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
The South ◽  
Sea Level Variability ◽  
China Sea ◽  
The Western Pacific

Numerical analysis and simulation experiment of lithospheric thermal structures in the South China Sea and the Western Pacific

2009 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ge Lin ◽  
Meili Peng ◽  
Chongbin Zhao ◽  
Lu Zhang ◽  
Desheng Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Analysis ◽  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
Simulation Experiment ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
The South ◽  
China Sea ◽  
Thermal Structures ◽  
The Western Pacific

Low-frequency sea-level variability in the South China Sea and its relationship to ENSO

2008 ◽  
Vol 97 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 41-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guoqi Han ◽  
Weigen Huang
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
South China ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
The South ◽  
Sea Level Variability ◽  
China Sea

scholarly journals The South China Sea: A Geopolitical Analysis

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Martin D Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
The United States ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
The South ◽  
China Sea ◽  
Geographic Setting ◽  
Territorial Water ◽  
The Western Pacific

Since 1945 the South China Sea and the western Pacific has functioned as an uncontested global common patrolled by overwhelming U.S. naval and air power projected from a series of peripheral and over the horizon bases. The dramatic rise of China alters this situation and has transformed the South China Sea into a frontier of control as China seeks to morph this maritime theater into a landward extension of the Chinese coast where it can deploy land-based tactics into an arena previously dominated by maritime power and tactics to secure the South China Sea as a de facto territorial water that serves multiple Chinese strategic interests. Hence, the attempt by a land-based Eurasian power (China) to carve a permanent bridgehead into Spykman’s Eurasian maritime periphery. Against, this trend the United States has countered with President Obama’s Asian Pivot. However, the implementation of the Asian Pivot is limited by several post Cold War developments and certain constraints inherent in the geographic setting of the South China Sea. Beyond the South China Sea, the geographic setting favors the U.S. and its allies. Consequently, American options acting singly or in coalition with other nations, most notably Japan and Australia, remain more flexible and able to serve as a long term counterweight to Chinese force projection capabilities into the western Pacific proper. 

Interannual sea level variability in the South China Sea and its response to ENSO

2007 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 257-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zengrui Rong ◽  
Yuguang Liu ◽  
Haibo Zong ◽  
Yongcun Cheng
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
South China ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
The South ◽  
Sea Level Variability ◽  
China Sea

scholarly journals The South China Sea is not a mini-Atlantic: plate-edge rifting vs intra-plate rifting

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 902-913 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pinxian Wang ◽  
Chi-Yue Huang ◽  
Jian Lin ◽  
Zhimin Jian ◽  
Zhen Sun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
Passive Margin ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
The South ◽  
Plate Edge ◽  
China Sea ◽  
The Western Pacific

Abstract The South China Sea, as ‘a non-volcanic passive margin basin’ in the Pacific, has often been considered as a small-scale analogue of the Atlantic. The recent ocean drilling in the northern South China Sea margin found, however, that the Iberian model of non-volcanic rifted margin from the Atlantic does not apply to the South China Sea. In this paper, we review a variety of rifted basins and propose to discriminate two types of rifting basins: plate-edge type such as the South China Sea and intra-plate type like the Atlantic. They not only differ from each other in structure, formation process, lifespan and geographic size, but also occur at different stages of the Wilson cycle. The intra-plate rifting occurred in the Mesozoic and gave rise to large oceans, whereas the plate-edge rifting took place mainly in the mid-Cenozoic, with three-quarters of the basins concentrated in the Western Pacific. As a member of the Western Pacific system of marginal seas, the South China Sea should be studied not in isolation on its origin and evolution, but in a systematic context to include also its neighboring counterparts.

A study of sea level variability and its long-term trend in the South China Sea

2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (9) ◽  
pp. 22-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Xu ◽  
Mingsen Lin ◽  
Quan’an Zheng ◽  
Qingtao Song ◽  
Xiaomin Ye
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
South China ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
The South ◽  
Sea Level Variability ◽  
Term Trend ◽  
China Sea ◽  
Long Term Trend
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