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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 44, Issue 22, Pages 11565-11572Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2017GL075336
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- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2016YFC1401604]
- Guangdong Natural Science Funds for Distinguished Young Scholars [2014A030306049]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41576002]
- 100 Talent Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams
- Open Project Program of the State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography [LTOZZ1602]
- National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) [2009CB421200]
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New evidences were provided that Kuroshio intrusion in winter is able to increase phytoplankton growth in the open ocean of the northern South China Sea (SCS) based on multiple data sources. Strong fronts due to Kuroshio intrusion and interactions with the SCS water are associated with intense upwelling, supplying high nutrients from the subsurface SCS water and increasing phytoplankton productivity in the frontal region. High chlorophyll is more dynamically related to these fronts than to the alongshore wind, wind stress curl, and eddy kinetic energy on interannual time scale. Further examinations suggest that fronts associated with Kuroshio intrusion into the SCS are linked with large-scale climate variability. During El Nino years, stronger Kuroshio intrusion results in stronger fronts that generate intensified local upwelling and enhanced Luzon winter blooms.
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