The South China Sea (SCS) is the largest marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean. Adjoining the western Pacific Ocean and the eastern Indian Ocean, the atmospheric and the oceanic dynamical processes of the SCS are strongly influenced by climate variability of the two oceans (
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