Browse > Article
http://dx.doi.org/10.7850/jkso.2007.12.4.280

The Effect of Anticyclonic Eddy on Nutrients and Chlorophyll During Spring and Summer in the Ulleung Basin, East Sea  

Kim, Dong-Seon (Marine Environment Research Department, Kordi)
Kim, Kyung-Hee (Marine Environment Research Department, Kordi)
Shim, Jeong-Hee (Marine Environment Research Department, Kordi)
Yoo, Sin-Jae (Marine Environment Research Department, Kordi)
Publication Information
The Sea:JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF OCEANOGRAPHY / v.12, no.4, 2007 , pp. 280-286 More about this Journal
Abstract
In order to find out the effects of the anticyclonic eddy on the distribution of nutrients and chlorophyll concentrations in the Ulleung Basin during spring and summer, we measured temperature, salinity, nutrients, and chlorophyll from the surface to 200 m water depth at five stations in July 2005 and April 2006. In spring, surface mixed layer was very deep inside the eddy, about 200 m, but it was relatively shallow outside the eddy, about $20{\sim}60$ m. Inside of the eddy, nutrients in the surface waters were sufficient by supply from the deep layer, whereas outside of the eddy, they were fairly depleted due to the stratification in the surface layer. In spring, chlorophyll concentrations were relatively low inside of the eddy due to the deeper surface mixed layer compared with the euphotic depth, and the depth-integrated chlorophyll concentrations outside of the eddy were twice as much as those inside of the eddy. In summer, nutrients in the surface waters were completely depleted at all stations due to the well stratification in the surface layer. The typical distribution pattern of subsurface chlorophyll maximum was observed at all stations, and the depth-integrated chlorophyll concentrations inside of the eddy were almost twice as much as those outside of the eddy. The anticyclonic eddy appearing in the Ulleung Basin every year significantly affects the phytoplankton biomass, with the opposing effects in spring and summer; in spring, the anticyclonic eddy suppresses phytoplankton growth, but in summer, it enhances the phytoplankton biomass.
Keywords
Anticyclonic Eddy; Nutrients; Chlorophyll; Ullenug Basin;
Citations & Related Records
연도 인용수 순위
  • Reference
1 이흥재, 변상경, 방인권, 조철호, 1995. 동해남서해역 와류의 물리적 구조. 한국해양학회지, 30: 170-183
2 Morel, A. and A. Bricaud, 1981. Theoretical results concerning light absorption in a descrete medium and application to specific absorption of phytoplankton. Deep-Sea Res., 28: 1375-1393   DOI   ScienceOn
3 Seki, M.P., J.J. Polovina, R.E. Brainard, R.R. Bidigare, C.L. Leonard and D.G. Foley. 2001. Biological enhancement at cyclonic eddies tracked with GOES thermal imagery in Hawaiian waters. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28: 1583-1586   DOI   ScienceOn
4 McGillicuddy, D.J. and A.R. Robinson, 1997. Eddy-induced nutrient supply and new production in the Sargasso Sea. Deep-Sea Res., 44: 1427-1450   DOI   ScienceOn
5 Franks, P.J.S, J.S. Wroblewski and G.R. Flierl, 1986. Prediction of phytoplankton growth in response to the frictional decay of a warm-core ring. J. Geophys. Res., 91: 7603-7610   DOI
6 Shin, H.-R., C.-W. Shin, C. Kim, S.-K. Byun and S.-C. Hwang, 2005. Movement and structural variation of warm eddy WE92 for three years in the Western East/Japan Sea. Deep-Sea Res., 52: 1742-1762   DOI   ScienceOn
7 Fernandez, C., P. Raimbault, G. Caniaux, N. Garcia and P. Rimmelin, 2005. Influence of mesoscale eddies on nitrate distribution during the POMME porgram in the northeast Atlantic Ocean. J. Mar. Syst., 55: 155-175   DOI   ScienceOn
8 정창수, 김재형, 박용철, 박상갑, 1989. 한국 동해의 기초생산력과 질소계 영양염의 동적관계. 한국해양학회지, 24: 52-61
9 Mizobata, K., S.I. Saitoh, A. Shiomoto, T. Miyamura, N. Shiga, K. Imai, M. Toratani, Y. Kajiwara and K. Sasaoka, 2002. Bering Sea cyclonic and anticyclonic eddies observed during summer 2000 and 2001. Prog. in Oceanogr., 55: 65-75   DOI   ScienceOn
10 Zhang, J.-Z., R. Wanninkhof and K. Lee, 2001. Enhanced new production observed from the diurnal cycle of nitrate in an oligotrophic anticyclonic eddy. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28: 1579-1582   DOI   ScienceOn
11 안희수, 심경신, 신홍렬, 1994. 동해 남서해역에서의 난수성 소용돌이에 대하여. 한국해양학회지, 29: 152-163
12 Yentsch, C.S. and D.A. Phinney, 1985. Rotary motions and convection as a means of regulating primary production in warm core ring. J. Geophys. Res., 90: 3237-3248   DOI
13 Vaillancourt, R.D., J. Marra, M.P. Seki, M.L. Parsons and R.R. Bidigare, 2003. Impact of a cyclonic eddy on phytoplankton community structure and photosynthetic competency in the subtropical North Pacific Ocean. Deep-Sea Res. I, 50: 829-847   DOI   ScienceOn
14 Martin, A.P. and K.J. Richards, 2001. Mechanisms for vertical nutrient transport within a North Atlantic mesoscale eddy. Deep-Sea Res. II, 48: 757-773   DOI   ScienceOn