AEHM – Volume 18, Issue 4

Tropical Marine Environmental Change

Foreword
Dongxiao Wang & Meilin Wu

Effects of sea-air interaction upon hydrodynamics in Xisha

Dynamic of the upper cross isobaths flow on the North South China Sea in summer
Qiang Wang, Yinxia Wang, Weidong Zhou, Dongxiao Wang, Dandan Sui & Ju Chen

A case study of the near-inertial oscillations near the Xisha Islands of the South China Sea during the passage of typhoon Conson 2010
Junliang Liu, Shuqun Cai, Dongxiao Wang & Yunkai He

High-frequency variability of latent-heat flux in the South China Sea
Rui Shi, Lili Zeng, Xin Wang & Dandan Sui

Preliminary Analysis of the Intraseasonal Air-sea Interaction Influenced by Xisha Warm Eddy
Jian Li, Tingting Zu, Lili Zeng, Ting Li, Ju Chen & Jinglong Yao

Observation and numerical simulation of the marine meteorology elements and air-sea fluxes at Yongxing Island in September 2013
Rui Shi, Lili Zeng, Ju Chen, Lei Yang, lingyu Dong, Yunkai He, Daning Li & Jinglong Yao

Analyzing marine ecosystems in Xisha via observed data

Seasonal flux variability of planktonic foraminifera during 2009–2011 in a sediment trap from Xisha Trough, South China Sea
Rong Xiang, Jianguo Liu, Dongxiao Wang, Muhong Chen, Chen Han, Zhong Chen, Wen Yan & Shilin Tang

Primary nitrite maximum in euphotic layer near Xisha Islands, South China Sea
Mei-Lin Wu, Qin-Yan Liu, Jun-De Dong, You-Shao Wang & Dong-Xiao Wang

The baseline of coral reef water quality in Xisha Islands waters of South China Sea under southwest monsoon
Jun-De Dong, Yuan-Chao Li, You-Shao Wang, Dong-Xiao Wang & Mei-Lin Wu

Diversity analysis of diazotrophs associated with corals from Xisha and Sanya, South China Sea
Qingsong Yang, Junde Dong, Yanying Zhang, Juan Ling, Dongxiao Wang, Meilin Wu, Yufeng Jiang & Yuanzhou Zhang

Regional ocean forecasting systems, environmental changes and the distribution of surface chlorophyll in the SCS

Regional ocean forecasting systems and their applications: Design considerations of such a system for the South China Sea
Xiaochun Wang, Liqing Zhao, Zhijin Li & Dimitris Menemenlis

An observed cyclonic eddy associated with boundary current in the northwestern South China Sea
Junmin Li, Zhiyou Jing, Senhui Jiang, Dongxiao Wang & Tong Yan

A winter chlorophyll bloom analyzed using Lagrangian diagnoses in the northeastern South China Sea
Weijie Li, Shilin Tang & Haigang Zhan

Contributed Articles

Sediment phosphorus forms and levels in two tropical floodplain wetlands
Srikanta Samanta, Debashri Debnath, Nilanjan Maitra, Moumita Banerjee, Atalanta Narayan Chowdhury, Anil Prakash Sharma & Sanjib Kumar Manna