scholarly journals Layer-Block Tectonics, a New Concept of Plate Tectonics - An Example from Nansha Micro-Plate, Southern South China Sea

Tectonics ◽  
10.5772/13661 ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hai-ling Liu ◽  
Hong-bo Zheng ◽  
Yan-Lin Wang ◽  
Chao-Hua Wu ◽  
Mei-Song Zhao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
Plate Tectonics ◽  
Southern South China Sea ◽  
China Sea

Contrasting Characteristics of Convection over the Northern and Southern South China Sea during SCSMEX

2006 ◽  
Vol 134 (4) ◽  
pp. 1041-1062 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul E. Ciesielski ◽  
Richard H. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
Kelvin Wave ◽  
Southern South China Sea ◽  
Rainy Period ◽  
Stratiform Rain ◽  
China Sea ◽  
Convective Systems ◽  
Early Afternoon ◽  
Dominant Feature

Abstract Observations from two enhanced sounding arrays during the May–June 1998 South China Sea Monsoon Experiment (SCSMEX) are used to determine and contrast the properties of convection over the northern and southern South China Sea (SCS). A regression analysis between SST data and monthly rainfall indicates that the ENSO signal exerted a strong influence on the rainfall distribution over the SCS during SCSMEX. This resulted in wetter-than-normal conditions along the south China coast and northern SCS, and generally drier-than-average conditions elsewhere, particularly over the Philippine Islands. The monsoon onset as determined by a shift in the low-level winds from easterly to southwesterly over the SCS occurred around mid-May. Over the southern enhanced sounding array (SESA), the onset was characterized by a rainy period associated with the passage of a convectively coupled Kelvin wave. This was followed by a weeklong break and then several episodic rain events with increasingly higher rain rates. Rainfall over the northern enhanced sounding array (NESA), which was largely out of phase with SESA rainfall events, occurred primarily during two 10-day periods separated by a weeklong break. Convective characteristics over the SESA, deduced primarily from heat and moisture budget profiles, indicate a high stratiform rain fraction consisting of alternating periods with decaying mesoscale systems that organized near the western Borneo coastline and shallower convective clouds. In contrast, NESA-averaged profiles were indicative of deep convection with a relatively small stratiform rain fraction, which was confirmed with radar analyses during the onset convective period. The diurnal cycle of convection is a dominant feature throughout much of the SCS. Over both budget regions, early morning (0500–0800 LT) convective systems were frequently initiated near the coasts, then gradually dissipated during the course of the day as the midlevel steering currents moved the systems away from the coastline. These decaying convective systems resulted in an early afternoon (1400 LT) rainfall peak over both sonde arrays.

Geochemistry of Pliocene Sediments from ODP Site 1143 (Southern South China Sea)

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Wehausen ◽  
J. Tian ◽  
H.-J. Brumsack ◽  
X. Cheng ◽  
P. Wang
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
Southern South China Sea ◽  
China Sea
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