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Acta0ceano1．Sin．，2014，Vo1．33，No．11，P55—63 DOI：10．1007／s13131．014．0555．x http：／／www．hyxb．org．cn E-mail：hyxbe@263．net Warm waterwakeoffnortheastVietnam intheSouht ChinaSea YANYunwei．一，CHENChanglin ，LINGZheng2 CoUegeofPhysicalandEnvironmentalOceanography,OceanUniversityofChina，Qingdao266100，China StateKeyLaboratoryofSatelliteOceanEnvironmentDynam ics，SecondInstituteofOceanography,State OceanicAdministration，Hangzhou310012，China Received24February2014；accepted13June2014 @TheChineseSocietyofOceanographyandSpringer—VerlagBerlinHeidelberg2014 Abstract Duetoorographicblockage，aweakwindwkaeoccursinsummeroffnortheastVietnam intheSouthChina Sea．Underthewindwka e，warm waterisobservedfrom bothhigh—resolutionsatellitedataandhydrograph— icobservations．Thewkaeofwram waterfoFnisinJune，continuestomatureinJulyandAugust，startsto decayinSeptember,anddisapperasinOctober．Thewarm waterwka ealsoshowsrobustdiurnalvaria— tion—itintensifiesduringthedayandweakensinthenight．Warmwaterwkaescna begeneratedthrouhg wind—inducedmixingandthermal (1atentheatflux)processes．InmisPal：Ier,amixedlayermodelisusedto evaluatetherelativeimportanceofthetwoprocessesonseasonal anddiurnal fimescales，respectively．The resultsdemonstratehtathtermalprocessesmakeagreatercontributiontohtewka ethna wind—induced mixingprocessesonaseasonaltimescale．whilethewarm waterwkaeisdominatedbywind—inducedmixing processesonadiurnal timescale． Key words：warm waterwka e，wind—inducedmixingprocesses，htermal processes，seasonaltimescale， diurnal timescale，northeastVietnam ，SouthChinaSea Citation：YanYunwei，ChenChanglin，LingZheng．2014．Warm waterwka eoffnorhteastVietnam intheSouht ChinaSea．Acta OceanologicaSinica，33(11)：55-63，doi：10．1007／s13131—014—0555一x 1Introduction nismsofthewarm waterwka eoffnortheastVietnam ． TheSouthChinaSea (SCS)isthelargestmarginal seain Wakesofwarm waterhavebeenobservedofrothe