Orographic effects on South China Sea summer climate

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haiming Xu ◽  
Shang-Ping Xie ◽  
Yuqing Wang ◽  
Wei Zhuang ◽  
Dongxiao Wang
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
Orographic Effects ◽  
China Sea ◽  
Summer Climate

Orographic effects on South China Sea summer climate

2008 ◽  
Vol 100 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 275-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Xu ◽  
S.-P. Xie ◽  
Y. Wang ◽  
W. Zhuang ◽  
D. Wang
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
Orographic Effects ◽  
China Sea ◽  
Summer Climate

scholarly journals Winter Eddy Genesis in the Eastern South China Sea due to Orographic Wind Jets

2008 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 726-732 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guihua Wang ◽  
Dake Chen ◽  
Jilan Su
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
Mesoscale Eddies ◽  
Winter Monsoon ◽  
Wind Forcing ◽  
Local Wind ◽  
Orographic Effects ◽  
China Sea ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Anticyclonic Eddies

Abstract Generation of mesoscale eddies in the eastern South China Sea (SCS) in winters during August 1999 to July 2002 is studied with a reduced-gravity model. It is found that the orographic wind jets associated with the northeast winter monsoon and the gaps in the mountainous island chain along the eastern boundary of the SCS can spin up cyclonic and anticyclonic eddies over the SCS. Results suggest that direct wind forcing could be an important generation mechanism for the rich eddy activity in the SCS, and that to simulate this mechanism the resolution of the wind forcing has to be high enough to resolve the local wind jets induced by orographic effects.

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