South China Sea warm-core and cold-core eddies detected from the Navy's Master Oceanographic Observation Data Set (MOODS)

A South China Sea warm core eddy with sea surface temperatures (SST) higher than 29.5 C, recently reported by Chu and Chang (1995), appears in the central South China Sea (west of Luzon Island) in boreal spring, and strengthens until the onset of the summer monsoon (mid-May), then weakens and disapp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tseng, Hsing-Chia
Other Authors: Chu, Peter
Language:en_US
Published: Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10945/7592