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http://dx.doi.org/10.7850/jkso.2010.15.4.192

Submarine Discharge of Fresh Groundwater Through the Coastal Area of Korea Peninsula: Importance as a Future Water Resource  

Hwang, Dong-Woon (Tidal Flat Research Institute, National Fisheries Research and Development Institute)
Kim, Gue-Buem (School of Earth and Environmental Sciences/RIO, Seoul National University)
Lee, Jae-Young (Marine Environment Policy Division, The Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs)
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The Sea:JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF OCEANOGRAPHY / v.15, no.4, 2010 , pp. 192-202 More about this Journal
Abstract
Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) has been recognized as a provider for freshwater, nutrients, and dissolved constituents from continents to the oceans and paid more attention with regard to the mass balance of water or dissolved constituents on local and global scales. The submarine discharge of fresh groundwater (fresh SGD) through seepage or springs in coastal ocean may be especially important in aspects of water resource and marine environment managements in the future. Based on the worldwide compilations of observed fresh SGD, our review reveals that fresh SGD occurs in various marine environments along most shoreline of the world and the global estimates of fresh SGD were approximately 0.01-17% of surface runoff. In addition, the input of fresh SGD calculated and investigated in this study were about 50%, 57%, 89%, and 420% of total river discharge in Jeju Island, Yeongil Bay, Masan Bay, and Yeoja Bay, respectively. These inputs from fresh SGD along the shoreline of Korea Peninsula are much higher than those of the whole world, greatly vary with the region. However, since these estimates are based on the water balance method mainly used in coastal ocean, we have to perform continuous monitoring of various parameters, such as precipitation, tide, evapotanspiration and water residence time, which have an impact on the water balance in a lot of areas for evaluating the precise input of fresh SGD. In addition, since the method estimating the input of fresh SGD has brought up many problems, it is required to make an intercomparison between various methods such as hydrogeological assumption, numerical modeling, and seepage meter.
Keywords
Fresh Submarine Groundwater Discharge; Water Resource; Water Balance;
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