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http://dx.doi.org/10.5467/JKESS.2011.32.7.719

Analysis of Absolute Sea-level Changes around the Korean Peninsula by Correcting for Glacial Isostatic Adjustment  

Kim, Kyeong-Hui (Department of Geoinformatic Engineering, Inha University)
Park, Kwan-Dong (Department of Geoinformatic Engineering, Inha University)
Lim, Chae-Ho (Department of Oceanographic, Korea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Administration)
Han, Dong-Hoon (Department of Marine, Mirae Ocean Corporation)
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Journal of the Korean earth science society / v.32, no.7, 2011 , pp. 719-731 More about this Journal
Abstract
Based on the ICE-3G and ICE-5G ice models, we predicted the velocities of crustal uplift caused by Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) at 39 tide gauge sites operated by Korea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Administration (KHOA). We also divided the Korean peninsula in the ranges of $32-38.5^{\circ}N$ and $124-132^{\circ}E$ in $0.5^{\circ}{\times}0.5^{\circ}$ grids, and computed the GIA velocities at each grid point. We found that the average uplift rates due to GIA in South Korea were 0.33 and 1.21 mm/yr for ICE-3G and ICE-5G, respectively. Because the GIA rates were relatively high at ~1 mm/yr when the updated ice model ICE-5G was used, we concluded that the GIA effect cannot be neglected when we compute the absolute sea level (ASL) rates around the Korean peninsula. In this study, we corrected the ICE-5G GIA velocities from the relative sea level rates provided by KHOA and we computed the ASL rates at 13 tide gauge stations. As a result, we found that the average ASL velocity around the Korean peninsula was 5.04 mm/yr. However, the ASL rates near Jeju island were abnormally higher than the other areas and the average was 8.84 mm/yr.
Keywords
GIA; glacial isostatic adjustment; crust uplift; relative sea level; absolute sea level;
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