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http://dx.doi.org/10.7850/jkso.2017.22.4.151

Schematic Maps of Ocean Currents in the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea for Science Textbooks Based on Scientific Knowledge from Oceanic Measurements  

PARK, KYUNG-AE (Department of Earth Science Education, Seoul National University)
PARK, JI-EUN (Department of Science Education, Seoul National University)
CHOI, BYOUNG-JU (Department of Oceanography, Chonnam National University)
LEE, SANG-HO (Department of Oceanography, Kunsan National University)
SHIN, HONG-RYEOL (Department of Atmospheric Science, Kongju National University)
LEE, SANG-RYONG (Department of Oceanography, Pusan National University)
BYUN, DO-SEONG (Ocean Research Division, Korea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Agency)
KANG, BOONSOON (Ocean Research Division, Korea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Agency)
LEE, EUNIL (Ocean Research Division, Korea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Agency)
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The Sea:JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF OCEANOGRAPHY / v.22, no.4, 2017 , pp. 151-171 More about this Journal
Abstract
Most of oceanic current maps in the secondary school science and earth science textbooks have been made on the base of extensive in-situ measurements conducted by Japanese oceanographers during 1930s. According to up-to-date scientific knowledge on the currents in the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea (YES), such maps have significant errors and are likely to cause misconceptions to students, thus new schematic map of ocean currents is needed. The currents in the YES change seasonally due to relatively shallow water depths, complex terrain, winds, and tides. These factors make it difficult to construct a unified ocean current map of the YES. Sixteen major items, such as the flow of the Kuroshio Current into the East China Sea and its northward path, the origin of the Tsushima Warm Current and its path into the Korea Strait, the path of Taiwan Warm Current, the Jeju Warm Current, the runoff pattern of the Yangtze River flow, the routes of the northward Yellow Sea Warm Current, the Chinese Coastal Current, and the West Korea Coastal Current off the west coast of the Korean Peninsula, were selected to produce the schematic current map. Review of previous scientific researches, in-depth discussions through academic conferences, expert discussions, and consultations for three years since 2014 enabled us to produce the final ocean current maps for the YES after many revisions. Considering the complexity of the ocean currents, we made seven ocean current maps: two representative current patterns in summer and winter, seasonal current maps for upper layer and lower layer in summer and winter, and one representative surface current map. It is expected that the representative maps of the YES, connected to the current maps of the East Sea and the Northwest Pacific Ocean, would be widely utilized for diverse purposes in the secondary-school textbooks as well as high-level educational purposes and even for scientific scholarly experts.
Keywords
Oceanic current map; Secondary school; Textbook; The Yellow Sea and the East China Sea; Scientific knowledge;
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