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The regional ocean circulation in the coastal areas of China (including a part of the western Pacific Ocean, the South China Sea and the Bay of Bengal et al.) is simulated by using the improved Princeton University ocean circulation model (POM). Compared with the modeling results obtained by the large-scale ocean general circulation model (OGCM), the basic ocean circulation features simulated by the regional ocean circulation model are in good agreement with that simulated by OGCM and some detailed characteristics such as the regional ocean circulation, sea temperature, salinity and free sea surface height have also been obtained which are in good accord with the observations. These results indicate that the regional ocean circulation model has good capability to produce the regional ocean circulation characteristics and it can be used to develop coupled regional ocean-atmospheric model systems.
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This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under the grant No. 49735170. The authors would like to thank Naval Postgraduate School and Princeton University for providing the ocean model.
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Yaocun, Z., Yongfu, Q. Numerical simulation of the regional ocean circulation in the coastal areas of china. Adv. Atmos. Sci. 16, 443–450 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-999-0022-3
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