Transport of Freshwater Across the Shallow Southeast Vietnamese Continental Shelf and Slope

Abstract

The long-term goal of this project is to understand the dynamics of shelfbreak processes in the South China Sea with particular emphasis on cross-shelf exchange, scales of variability, and the effects of monsoonal forcing on exchange. The specific objectives for this project were to perform two research cruises during the winter and summer monsoons and do repeated hydrography with a towed vehicle to measure fluxes across the shelfbreak in the South China Sea. We also planned to deploy two moorings to examine temporal variability of cross-shelf flows.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2013
Accession Number
ADA601148

Entities

People

  • Anthony Kirincich
  • Glen G. Gawarkiewicz

Organizations

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Acoustic Propagation
  • Continental Shelves
  • Deep Water
  • East China Sea
  • Frequency
  • Information Operations
  • Internal Waves
  • Landforms
  • Measurement
  • South China Sea
  • Tidal Power
  • Topography
  • Towed Vehicles
  • Transport Ships
  • Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers