Pronounced freshening of the South China Sea water caused by weakened Kuroshio intrusion since the early 1990s
Feng Nan1, Fei Yu2, Huijie Xue3, Lili Zeng3, Dongxiao Wang4, Shilun Yang5 and Kim-Cuong Nguyen6, (1)Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, (2)Institute of Oceanology, Qingdao, China, (3)SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, (4)Chinese Acad Sci, Guangzhou, China, (5)East China Normal University, China, (6)Department of Marine Science and Technology, University of Science, Hanoi, Vietnam, Vietnam