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Introduction to the special section on regional environmental oceanography in the South China Sea and its adjacent areas (REO-SCS)

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This work is funded by the Natural Science Foundation of China through projects 40976013 and 40821063, the National Basic Research Program of China through project 2009CB421208 (for Hu), partially supported by the US National Science Foundation Program AGS-1061998 (for Zheng), and supported by a direct grant from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (for Pan). The editing of the special section is jointly supported by the State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science of Xiamen University (MELRS0942), the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Global COE Program from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (for Guo). We, the guest editors of the special section, also thank the dedicated work of all the reviewers, and appreciate the extensive and sustained efforts of Profs. Toshiro Saino and Toshiyuki Hibiya, Editors-in-Chief of Journal of Oceanography, and Springer Japan. Without their perseverance and guidance, the special section would not be possible.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Fujian, 361005, China

    Jianyu Hu

  2. Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, China

    Jiayi Pan

  3. Center for Marine Environmental Studies, Ehime University, 2-5 Bunkyo-Cho, Matsuyama, 790-8577, Japan

    Xinyu Guo

  4. Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA

    Quanan Zheng

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Hu, J., Pan, J., Guo, X. et al. Introduction to the special section on regional environmental oceanography in the South China Sea and its adjacent areas (REO-SCS). J Oceanogr 67, 359–363 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10872-011-0063-y

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