• Journal of the korean society of oceanography
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• 제38권3호
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• pp.135-142
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• 2003

Gas flux across the air-sea interface is often determined by the product of gas transfer velocity k) and the difference of concentrations in water and air. k is primarily controlled by wind stress on the air-sea interface, thus all parameterizations ofk involve wind speed, a rough indicator of wind stress, as one of the independent variables. We attempted to explore the spatial and temporal variations of k in the East (Japan) Sea using a database from Naet al. (1992). Three different parameterizations were employed: those of Liss and Merlivat (1986), Wanninkhof(1992), and Wanninkhofand McGillis (1999). The strong non-linear dependence of k on wind speed in all parameterizations leads us to examine the effect of time resolution, in which the binned wind speeds are averaged, on the estimation ofk. Two time resolutions of 12 hours (short-term) and one month (long-term) were chosen. The mean wind speeds were fed into the given parameterizations, resulting in six different transfer velocities of $CO_2$ ranging from 12 to 32 cm/h. In addition to the threefold difference depending on the choice of parameterization, the long-term average of wind speed results in a value ofk up to 20% higher than the short-term (12 hours) average of wind speed due to the non-Rayleigh wind distribution in the East (Japan) Sea. While it is not known which parameterization is more reliable, this study proposes that the time-averaged wind speed should not be used in areas where non-Ralyleigh wind distribution prevails such as the East (Japan) Sea. The net annual $CO_2$ flux was estimated using the value of k described above and the monthly ${\Delta}fCO_2$ of Oh et al. (1999); this ranges from 0.034 to 0.11 Gt-C/yr.

• 한국해양학회지:바다
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.226-235
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• 2019

동해에서 용존 규소의 분포 특성을 현존하는 가장 광역적인 탐사였던 1999-2000년도 ONR-JES 탐사 자료와 1970년도 일본 자료와 대조해서 살펴보았다. 동해에서 현재 진행 중인 해수교체 양상의 변동과 용존 규소의 분포를 인산염 대 용존 규소의 비로 고찰한 결과로 일차생산에 대한 용존 규소의 제한이 점차 가중될 것이란 가설을 제시하였다. 용존 규소의 제한은 일차생산자의 종조성을 바꾸고 이어서 내려보내기 생산에서 유기입자의 침강이 광물질 껍데기 보다는 유기 점착물 침강에 의한 기여가 커질 것이라 예상된다. 해양에서 규소 순환이 탄소 순환과 깊숙이 연계되어 있는 점에 비추어 미래의 온난화된 대양이 동해처럼 거동하게 될지는 시의 적절한 연구 주제가 될 것이라 전망하였다.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.1021-1032
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• 1997

Satellite-tracked drifters deployed in the East Sea since 1991 are used to study the Tsushima Current (TC). It is found that the TC is a steady current with a mean speed of 10 cm/s before it enters the East Sea. Only during the summer, the TC flows along Honshu Island with a mean speed of $30\~40\;cm/s$ and then exits through the Tsugaru Strait. In fall and winter, the TC does not follow the coast along Honshu Island but it enters into the interior of the East Sea before it reaches the Tsugaru Strait. The water that passes the West Channel of the Korea Strait mostly comes from the western East China Sea and spreads into the interior of the East Sea. It also forms the large eddies in the southern East Sea. The outflow through the Tsugaru Strait comes from the interior of the East Sea in all seasons except summer. The mean speed of the Tsugaru Strait outflow is about 60 cm/s. The largest current variability is found in the eastern central area of the East Sea, south of sub-polar front.

• Journal of the korean society of oceanography
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.212-218
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• 1998

Three different outflow boundary conditions are considered in modeling the East Sea circulation. The first one is that of the conventional constant volume transport (CT). The second one is the Orlanski radiation boundary condition (OR). The third one is that of the constant sea level just outside the outflow boundary (SL). In the third condition, the outflow current is set to be driven by the sea level differences across the outflow open-boundary lines, based on the recent knowledge that the Tsushima Current is driven by the sea level differences across the inflow and outflow boundaries. In case of OR it takes too much time to reach the steady state, resulting in a large increase of Tsushima Current Water in the basin and low level of kinetic energy. Both CT and SL reach the steady state in a relatively short time. However, SL is more recommendable, because it is based on physical background and generates less numerical noises than CT.

• Journal of the korean society of oceanography
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.128-137
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• 1997

This study presents results from a detailed sedimentological investigation of surface sediments obtained from the Korea Strait region, the southern part of the East Sea (Sea of Japan). The distribution of different types of bottom sediments is controlled by the recent fine-grained sediment transport and deposition combined with the lowerings of sea level during the last glacial period, forming a diverse mixture of organic-rich fine-grained and shelly coarse-grained sediments. In comparison to high organic concentration of fine-grained sediments in the inner continental shelf and slope areas, the shell-rich coarse-grained sediments on the outer shelf are discernible being further modified. These coarse-grained sediments are confirmed as relict resulting from the sediment dynamics during the lower sea levels of the last glacial period. Clay mineral distribution of the fine-grained sediments gives information about the transport mechanism. Presence of present-day current system (the Tsushima Warm Current) is most probable source for the fine-grained particles into the open East Sea from the East China Sea, indicating that Holocene sediment dynamics may be used to explain the observed distribution of surface coarse-grained shell-rich sediments.

• Ocean Science Journal
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• 제40권2호
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• pp.101-107
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• 2005

A simple analytical model is considered in an attempt to demonstrate a formation mechanism of the abyssal current in the East Sea. In this model, the abyssal currents are driven by wind through an outcrop region and flow along closed geostrophic contours. A rough estimate of the abyssal currents, arrived at by applying this model to the region of deep mixing in the East Sea, gives currents comparable to those observed, although there is an uncertainty in the surface area of the outcrop region. It seems that the spin-up of deep water by wind forcing through the region of deep winter mixing is, at least partly, an important contribution to the formation of the abyssal currents in the East Sea.

• 한국해양학회지:바다
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.295-306
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• 2003

산업혁명 이후 인류가 과량으로 방출한 이산화탄소가 지구환경에 어떤 영향을 미치는지, 그리고 해양이 흡수하는 탄소량의 크기가 얼마인지에 대한 연구들이 진행되고 있다. 대양과 비슷한 순환 특징을 가지고 있는 동해가 이산화탄소 증가와 지구온난화에 대해 어떻게 반응하는지를 알아보기 위한 연구계획의 일환으로 탄소순환에 중요하게 기여하는 생물펌프의 크기를 간단한 상자모형을 적용시켜 추정하였다. 매개변수로는 인산염을 사용하였는데, 동해에서 일어나고 있는 수층 구조의 변화를 고려해서 해수 수지와 용존산소 수지를 맞춘 다음에, 인산염의 과거 자료를 바탕으로 인의 순환 플럭스를 모사하였다. 1952년부터 2040년까지 모사해 본 결과, 동해에서 생물펌프는 점차 강화되고 있고, 현재 0.0156 Pg C yr$^{-1}$ 정도를 해양 내부로 내보내고 있는 것으로 추정된다. 한편 동해의 해수순환은 저층수를 만드는 것이 줄어드는 반면 중앙층으로 유입이 증가하는 추세이다. 산소가 풍부한 표층수가 중앙층으로 유입되면서 유광층에서 하강한 생물입자들의 분해가 이 층에서 활발해져서 영양염을 표층으로 되돌리는 것이 강화될 것으로 보인다. 이렇게 되면 생물에 의한 탄소제거가 늘어나게 될 깃이다. 지난 50년간의 생물펌프 변화로 블 때 산업혁명 이후 생물에 의한 동해의 인류기원 이산화탄소 흡수량은 0.025 Pg C 정도로 추정된다.

• Journal of the korean society of oceanography
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.123-133
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• 1996

We describe here the shallow water tides in the seas around Korea, obtained from a nonlinear barotropic model of tides in a domain encompassing the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and the East Sea (Sea of Japan). As expected, the shallow water tides are large in the shallow marginal areas around the Yellow Sea, with the M4 tide reaching amplitudes as high as 10 cm near the Korean coast, and quite small in the East Sea. However, we also find that the regions east of the Yangtze River ($126^{\circ}E,$ $30^{\circ}N$) in the East China Sea also sustain large shallow water tides, with $M_{4}$, amplitudes reaching 5 cm. Such large shallow water tides are an important component of altimeter-measured sea levels and should not be ignored in any altimetric analyses of the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea. This study also highlights the desirability of very high resolution models to derive accurate shallow water tides in coastal regions.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2003년도 Proceedings of ACRS 2003 ISRS
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• pp.703-705
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• 2003

A comparison was made between the chlorophyll a and suspended solid (SS) retrievals from OSMI and SeaWiFS sensor to chlorophyll a and SS values determined with the standard method during the NFRDI's research cruises. The percentage of organic and inorganic materials from the SS was calculated to study the contribution of turbid water in the northern part of the East China Sea. The open sea waters in the Kuroshio regions of the East China Sea showed relatively higher concentration of volatile SS. However, towards the northwestern part of the East China Sea, the situation became much more optically different with the non-volatile SS from the Yangtze river and the sea bottom sources in the sea in winter and spring seasons. Furthermore, in order to indirectly detect low salinity water with high turbidity, which related to the Yangtze river using remote sensed data from the satellites, a comparison between the results of the band ratio(nLw 490nm/nLw 555nm) of SeaWiFS (OSMI) and the distribution of low salinity around the Jeju Island was presented.

• Journal of the korean society of oceanography
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.38-45
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• 1997

To find out the changes in vertical distribution patterns over the 24-h period, a key and the first step to tackle the problem of adaptive significance of diel vertical migration (DVM), vertically stratified time series samplings with multiple opening/closing plankton samplers were done in the East Sea of Korea (Sea of Japan). Sampling was done almost every 4 h for one day period following the same water parcel in Nov. 1995 and May 1996, respectively. Resultant patterns of vertical distribution showed that some species such as most abundant taxa Metridia pacifica and Scolecithyicella minor, both Copepoda, performed DVM even in the study area of strong thermal stratification. Their patterns of DVM such as distance scales and timing of movements were not the same each other, and they were separated from other taxa in the dendrogram obtained by the cluster analyses, Most minor taxa grouped in one, however, seemed not to do DVM in the study area of strong thermal stratification. They usually preferred the warmer surface layer where the foods were probably more abundant.