No-analog planktonic foraminiferal faunas in the glacial southern South China Sea: Implications for the magnitude of glacial cooling in the western Pacific warm pool

2008 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Steinke ◽  
Pai-Sen Yu ◽  
Michal Kucera ◽  
Min-Te Chen
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
Warm Pool ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Western Pacific Warm Pool ◽  
Southern South China Sea ◽  
China Sea ◽  
Pacific Warm Pool ◽  
The Western Pacific

Dry climate near the Western Pacific Warm Pool: Pleistocene caliches of the Nansha Islands, South China Sea

2005 ◽  
Vol 226 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 205-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shou-Yeh Gong ◽  
Horng-Sheng Mii ◽  
Kuo-Yen Wei ◽  
Chorng-Sherng Horng ◽  
Chen-Feng You ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
Warm Pool ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Western Pacific Warm Pool ◽  
Nansha Islands ◽  
China Sea ◽  
Pacific Warm Pool ◽  
The Western Pacific

An Expendable Microstructure Profiler for Deep Ocean Measurements

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaodong Shang ◽  
Yongfeng Qi ◽  
Guiying Chen ◽  
Changrong Liang ◽  
Rolf G. Lueck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
Deep Ocean ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Western Pacific Ocean ◽  
Southern South China Sea ◽  
China Sea ◽  
Dissipation Rates ◽  
The Western Pacific

AbstractMeasurements of turbulence in the deep ocean, particularly close to the bottom, are extremely sparse because of the difficulty and operational risk of obtaining deep profiles near the seafloor. A newly developed expendable instrument—the VMP-X (Vertical Microstructure Profiler–Expendable)—carries two microstructure shear probes to measure the fluctuations of vertical shear into the dissipation range and can profile down to a depth of 6000 m. Data from nine VMP-X profiles in the western Pacific Ocean near 11.6°N over rough topography display bottom-intensified turbulence with dissipation rates increasing by two factors of 10 to 4 W kg−1 within 200 m above the bottom. In contrast, over smooth topography in the southern South China Sea near 11°N, three profiles show that turbulence in the bottom boundary layer increases only slightly, with dissipation rates reaching 1 W kg−1. The eddy diffusivity over rough topography reached to 5 m2 s−1. The average diffusivity over all depths was 0.3 and 0.9 m2 s−1 for the tests in the southern South China Sea and in the western Pacific Ocean, respectively, and these values are much larger than previous estimates of less than ≈0.1 m2 s−1 for the main thermocline.

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