Articles | Volume 18, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-18-717-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-18-717-2022
Research article
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19 May 2022
Research article |  | 19 May 2022

Counter-rotating eddy pair in the Luzon Strait

Ruili Sun, Peiliang Li, Yanzhen Gu, Fangguo Zhai, Yunwei Yan, Bo Li, and Yang Zhang

Data sets

Product user manual for sea level SLA products, Copernicus Monitoring Environment Marine Service (CMEMS) (https://resources.marine.copernicus.eu/) M. Pujol and M. Francoise https://doi.org/10.48670/moi-00148

Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM) Version 2.1 User's Guide, HYCOM consortium A. Wallcraft, S. Carroll, K. Kelly, and K. Rushing https://www.hycom.org/dataserver/gofs-3pt0/reanalysis

Blended and gridded high resolution global sea surface wind speed and climatology from multiple satellites: 1987-present H. Zhang, R. Reynolds, and J. Bates https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/blended-sea-winds

SST, Remote Sensing Systems Remote Sensing Systems (RSSs) https://www.remss.com/measurements/sea-surface-temperature/

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Short summary
Previous studies show that only when water flows into and out of the Luzon Strait (LS), material and energy exchange between the South China Sea (SCS) and the Northwest Pacific (NWP) will take place. However, our studies demonstrate that mesoscale eddies in the NWP can transfer vorticity to mesoscale eddies in the SCS, without water exchange in the LS. This provides a new perspective for the study of material and energy exchange between the SCS and NWP.