Role of Ekman Transport Versus Ekman Pumping in Driving Summer Upwelling in the South China Sea

• 作 者: WANG Dakui WANG Hui LIMing LIU
• 机 构: PhysicalOceanographyLaboratory,HornPointLaboratory,Keylaboratoryofresearchonmarinehazardsforecasting
• 出 处: 中国海洋大学学报：英文版
• 发表日期: 2013年3期
• 关键词: 交通运输 中国南海 EKMAN抽吸 海上 夏季 驱动 南海地区 ENSO South China Sea upwelling Ekman transport E
• 基金项目: the China Scholarship Council for sponsoring Dakui Wang’svisit to Horn Point Laboratory of University of Maryland,the National Nature Science Foundation of China(Grants Nos.41076011,40531006,41106024

Relative roles of Ekman transport and Ekman pumping in driving summer upwelling in the South China Sea(SCS) are examined using QuikSCAT scatterometer wind data.The major upwelling regions in the SCS are the coastal regions east and southeast of Vietnam(UE