摘要
阐述了南海暖流的发现经过，对进一步的观测实验以及形成机制等方面作了回顾，重点是阐述各学者对南海暖流形成机制的看法，并概括出各学者的观点至少存在着4种较大的差异，期望在今后的进一步研究中将会逐步达到一个合理的共识。
The South China Sea Warm Current is a northeastward current in the coastal area of eastem Guandong and in the deep water off Guandong. Thirty yeare and more have elareed since the preliminary discovery of its existence in the natuonwide comprehensive oceanographic survey (1959-1960). Through the effirts of Chinese oceanographers (including the scientists in Taiwan and USA),significant progress has been echieved. The study of the South China Sea Warm Current is briefly reviewed in this paper in the following three parts: (1) The discovery of the South China Sea Warm Current (2) The observations and experiments for further confirming the Current (3) The study of the mechanism of the Current The third one is the main point of the Present Paper Analysis revealed tha as to the formation mechanism of the South cana Sea Warm thent there exist sevelal quite different view points. It may be summed uP into at least the following four major differences. After all, (1) which is the main cause of the current the barotropic effect or baroclinic effect? (2) which is the main forcing term of the curren, the down-stream sea surface slope or cross-shelf sea surfase slope? (3) whether the current is a climatic phenomenon or a synopitc one? and (4) what is the relation between the South China Sea Warm Current and the Kurshio South China Sea Branch? It is not easy to resolve these discrepancies. The author is looking forward to see that through the further common efforts of the scientists concemed, a reasOnable and generally accepted conclusion of the formation mechanism of the South China Sea Warm Current may be graduallyarhieved in the not far future.
出处
《海洋与湖沼》
CAS
CSCD
北大核心
1998年第3期323-329,共7页
Oceanologia Et Limnologia Sinica
基金
国家自然科学基金!49576280
49136142
关键词
南海
暖流
黑潮
正压效应
气候性现象
South China Sea Warm Current Kuroshio South China Sea Branch Barotropic effect Baroclinic effect Climatic phenomenon Synoptic phenomenon
