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CONTINENTAL SHELF RESEARCH
Volume 30, Issue 13, Pages 1428-1434Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2010.05.002
Keywords
Yellow/East China Sea; A warming trend; NPO-like sea level pressure
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- Korean Government (MEST) [NRF-2009-C1AAA001-2009-0093042]
- MLTM [PM55670]
- KORDI [PE98445]
- Korea Institute of Marine Science & Technology Promotion (KIMST) [20032003] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
- National Research Council of Science & Technology (NST), Republic of Korea [PE98445] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2009-0093066] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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We examine characteristics in the variability of sea surface temperature (SST) in the Yellow/East China Sea during the boreal winter (December-January-February) for the period 1950-2008 in observations. It is found that the mean SST in the Yellow Sea/East China Sea gradually increases during recent decades. A warming trend of a basin scale SST is significant in most of the regions in the Yellow/East Sea, which is well explained by the variability of the first empirical orthogonal function SST mode. We suggest one candidate mechanism that the North Pacific oscillation (NPO)-like sea level pressure play an important role to warm the Yellow/East China Sea. Anomalous anticyclonic circulation, which is the southern lobe of NPO-like sea level pressure over the North Pacific, causes a weakening of northerly mean winds over the Yellow/East China Sea during winter. This contributes to increase in the SST in the Yellow/East China Sea through the changes in the latent heat and sensible heat fluxes. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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