摘要
In the glacial cycles, a marginal sea may display its 'amplifying effect' in environmental changes. An example is the South China Sea (SCS), where the glacial/interglacial contrast of winter sea surface temperature (SST) reaches 6—9℃, far exceeding that at similar latitudes in the Pacific. We speculated that such an 'amplifying effect' of SCS must be related to a radical, reorganization of the surface circulation during glacial period, but this is to be tested and verified. Numerical simulation is one way to test it.
基金
the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Key Laboratory, LASG.
