Water masses in the South China Sea and water exchange between the Pacific and the South China Sea

2002 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Fengqi ◽  
Li Lei ◽  
Wang Xiuqin ◽  
Liu Changle
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
Water Exchange ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
Water Masses ◽  
The South ◽  
China Sea ◽  
The Pacific

scholarly journals The Changing Influences of ENSO and the Pacific Meridional Mode on Mesoscale Eddies in the South China Sea

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 685-700 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pengfei Tuo ◽  
Jin-Yi Yu ◽  
Jianyu Hu
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
Wind Stress ◽  
South China ◽  
Southern Oscillation ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
Eddy Correlation ◽  
The South ◽  
Vector Method ◽  
China Sea ◽  
The Pacific

This study finds that the correlation between El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the activity of mesoscale oceanic eddies in the South China Sea (SCS) changed around 2004. The mesoscale eddy number determined from satellite altimetry observations using a geometry of the velocity vector method was significantly and negatively correlated with the Niño-3.4 index before 2004, but the correlation weakened and became insignificant afterward. Further analyses reveal that the ENSO–eddy relation is controlled by two major wind stress forcing mechanisms: one directly related to ENSO and the other indirectly related to ENSO through its subtropical precursor—the Pacific meridional modes (PMMs). Both mechanisms induce wind stress curl variations over the SCS that link ENSO to SCS eddy activities. While the direct ENSO mechanism always induces a negative ENSO–eddy correlation through the Walker circulation, the indirect mechanism is dominated by the northern PMM (nPMM), resulting in a negative ENSO–eddy correlation before 2004, and by the southern PMM (sPMM) after 2004, resulting in a positive ENSO–eddy correlation. As a result, the direct and indirect mechanisms enhance each other to produce a significant ENSO–eddy relation before 2004, but they cancel each other out, resulting in a weak ENSO–eddy relation afterward. The relative strengths of the northern and southern PMMs are the key to determining the ENSO–eddy relation and may be related to a phase change of the interdecadal Pacific oscillation.

An overview of 10-year observation of the South China Sea branch of the Pacific to Indian Ocean throughflow at the Karimata Strait

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zexun Wei ◽  
Shujiang Li ◽  
R. Dwi Susanto ◽  
Yonggang Wang ◽  
Bin Fan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
The South ◽  
China Sea ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Karimata Strait

New species and records of deep-water Orbiniidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from the Eastern Pacific continental slope, abyssal Pacific Ocean, and the South China Sea

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4730 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-61
Author(s):  
JAMES A. BLAKE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
South China Sea ◽  
Continental Slope ◽  
South China ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
The South ◽  
China Sea ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
A New Species

Eighteen species of Orbiniidae, 15 new to science, are reported from deep-sea habitats in the Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea. The collection includes specimens from continental slope and abyssal soft sediments as well as hydrothermal vent and methane seep sites. New collections of Califia calida Hartman, 1957, Naineris uncinata Hartman, 1957, and Phylo nudus (Moore, 1911) allow redescription and new distributional records of these species to be documented. Five species of Leitoscoloplos: L., cliffordi n. sp., L. gordaensis n sp., L. lunulus n. sp., L. sahlingi n. sp., and L. williamsae n. sp. are described together with a new species of Berkeleyia, B. lelievre n. sp., two new species of Scoloplos: S. californiensis n. sp. and S. sparsaciculus n. sp., and a new species of Leodamas, L. bathyalis n. sp. In addition, six new species of Orbiniella are described: O. abyssalis n. sp., O. eugeneruffi n. sp., O. grasslei n. sp., O. longilobata n. sp., O. rugosa n. sp., and O. tumida n. sp. 

Preface: Earth system evolution of the Pacific and Indian oceans and the South China Sea

2016 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 5-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanzhong Li ◽  
Guangxue Li ◽  
Xin Liu ◽  
Ian Somerville
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
Earth System ◽  
The South ◽  
System Evolution ◽  
China Sea ◽  
The Pacific

Responses of the South China Sea to Mesoscale Disturbances from the Pacific

2020 ◽  
pp. 243-287
Author(s):  
Lingling Xie ◽  
Quanan Zheng ◽  
Mingming Li ◽  
Junyi Li ◽  
Chung-Ru Ho
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
The South ◽  
China Sea ◽  
The Pacific
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