Introduction to special section: Dynamics and Circulation of the Yellow, East, and South China Seas
Introduction to special section: Dynamics and Circulation of the Yellow, East, and South China Seas
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DOI:
10.1029/2005jc003261
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发表时间:
2006-11
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通讯作者:
Q. Zheng;G. Fang;Y. Song
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作者:
Q. Zheng;G. Fang;Y. Song
. The seas aresurrounded by 12 countries: China, North Korea, SouthKorea, Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia,Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam, which ac-count for over 2.0 billion of the human inhabitants (mid-2005 estimate), nearly one third of the world population.These populations are impacted by all coastal manifesta-tions of global climate change, such as rising sea level andmore frequent and severe storms [Anderson et al., 2001].Since ancient times, the seas have served as a convenientnavigation waterway for the East Asian and Southeast Asiannations to communicate with each other and with nations ofthe outside world [Guo et al., 2004; Su and Yuan, 2005].Even today, the seas are among the busiest waterways in theworld because of the size and the high growth rates of theregion in the world economy and trade.[