South China Sea Warm Pool in Boreal Spring

Abstract

During the boreal spring of 1966, a warm core eddy is identified in the upper South China Sea (SCS) west of the Philippines through an analysis of the U.S. Navy's Master Oceanographic Observation Data Set. This eddy occurred before the development of the northern summer monsoon and disappeared afterward. We propose that this eddy is a result of the radiative warming during spring and the downwelling due to the anticyclonic forcing at the surface. Our hypothesis suggests an air-sea feedback scenario that may explain the development and withdrawal of the summer monsoon over the SCS. The development phase of the arm-core eddy in this hypothesis is tested by using the Princeton Ocean model

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA480366

Entities

People

  • C. -p. Chang
  • Peter Cheng Chu

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

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  • Abstracts
  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Availability
  • Classification
  • Contracts
  • Data Sets
  • Feedback
  • Information Operations
  • Instructions
  • Landforms
  • Monitoring
  • Observation
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Philippines
  • South China Sea

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers