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SUBMITTER: Huang Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5814407 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20180215 1
Based on three climatologically observed temperature and salinity datasets (i.e., GDEM-V3, SCSPOD14 and WOA13), this paper reports a low-salinity (~34.32) water mass in the subsurface-to-intermediate layer around the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea. This water mass mainly subducts from the surface layer into the intermediate layer, characterized by a relatively low potential vorticity tongue extending from the bottom of mixed layer to the thermocline, and accompanied by a thermocline ventil ...[more]