Local Atmospheric Responses to Ocean Dynamic Features in the South China Sea

Abstract

Kuroshio intrusion within the Luzon Strait, which enters the northern South China Sea (SCS), and offshore cool-jet occurring off east Vietnam in summer are two well-documented dynamic oceanic features within the SCS. Given the possible impacts of those distinct and dynamic features on the local atmospheric environment, weather system, oceanic environment and also ecosystem, it needs to be further understood whether the sea surface variability resulting from those distinct ocean dynamic features would cause great influences feeding back to local atmosphere under certain situations. In this chapter, we will reveal the local atmospheric responses to those dynamic features, which might shed light on further improving the prediction of local weather system in the SCS. Additionally, generated mechanisms of those atmospheric responses are also analyzed.