• Journal of the korean society of oceanography
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.60-67
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• 2003

Typhoon Rusa passed over the East China Sea and crossed over the Korea Peninsula on August 31, 2002. The core of the typhoon passed directly over a data buoy mooring site at ($127^{\circ}45'E,\;34^{\circ}25'\;N$) and several ARGOS-tracked drifters capable of measuring salinity. Peak hourly mean wind speed reached 28 m/s at the mooring site and wind pattern in the East China Sea changed from southerly wind to northwesterly wind after the typhoon passage. Two or three days before the typhoon tile drifter displacement changed significantly and the region-wide circulation pattern changed from a northeastward current to a westward current one week after the typhoon had passed. The surface water in the East China Sea was cooled to about $4^{\circ}C$ under the typhoon core and a general cooling occurred in most of the East China Sea with the exception of the Chinese coast. The salinity as observed by the drifters in the East China Sea increased about 2 psu but the near-shore water along the Korean coast observed by the mooring was freshened about 3 psu. The freshening of near-shore water was caused by an intrusion of off-shore water rather than local freshening by typhoon precipitation.

• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.145-151
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• 2016

수온과 기후 지수 자료를 이용하여 한국주변해 상층부의 수온변동과 북태평양 기후체제와의 관계를 분석하였다. 1970, 1980 그리고 1990년대 후반에 발생한 기후체제전환은 해양생태계의 구조 변화에 중요한 영향을 끼쳤다. 북서태평양 대륙주변부에 위치한 우리나라 주변해역 또한, 10년 이상의 장주기적인 변화의 영향을 받지만, 해역별 반응은 다르다. 동해, 서해, 남해 상층부(10 m)의 경우 1988년의 기후체제전환은 3개 해역의 상층부 수온변화에서 동시에 나타난다. 반면, 1998년은 동해남부해역과 서해, 1976년의 기후체제전환은 전 해역의 겨울철 수온변화에서만 그 영향이 나타난다. 1998년 기후체제전환 이후, 서해, 동중국해, 동해 남부의 수온은 점차 감소하지만, 동해 북부해역은 1988년 기후체제전환 이후 증가하는 형태이다.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.135-141
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• 2004

Drift data from 17 Argo profiling floats in the East Sea are used to understand the mean flow and its variability in the upper portion of the East Sea Proper Water (UESPW) (around 800 m). The flow penetrates into the Ulleung basin (UB) through two paths: an extension of the southward flowing of the North Korean Cold Water along the east coast of Korea and between Ulleung Island and Dok island. Flows at 800 m are observed in the range of from 0.2 to 4.29 cms-1 and the variability in the north of the UB is larger than that in the south of the UB. In the UB, cyclonic flows from 0.3 to 1.6 cms-1 are observed with the bottom topography. We found that the mean kinetic energy (MKE) and the mean eddy kinetic energy (EKE) are 1.3 and 2.1 cm2s-2 respectively.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.294-300
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• 2008

Abnormal cooling of the Korean East Sea Water(KESW) in the East Sea before and after the 1982-1983 and 1997-1998 ENSO events is examined using bimonthly routine observation data from the National Fisheries Research and Development Institute of Korea for the period 1965 to 2002. The KESW, which occupies roughly a region between the Korean Peninsula and west of approximately $131^{\circ}E$, showed extreme cold-state years(1981 and 1996) prior to the two strongest ENSO events of the last half-century. Inter-annual bimonthly mean anomalies at 100 m in the KESW region were $-3.10^{\circ}C\;and\;-3.41^{\circ}C(SD=1.4^{\circ}C)$ in 1981 and 1996, respectively. These results suggest that extreme cooling of the KESW may be a prelude to very strong ENSO events through large-scale teleconnections.

• Journal of the korean society of oceanography
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.164-172
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• 1996

CREAMS (Circulation Research of the East Asian Marginal Seas) Expeditions have provided a rare opportunity to carry out precise measurements of salinity, temperature and chemical tracers extensively in all major basins of the East Sea (Japan Sea) in 1993-1996 for the first time in more than 60 years since Uda's investigation (Uda, 1934). Studies revealed unequivocal evidence that the East Sea Proper Water (ESPW), previously known as a single homogeneous water mass, is indeed made of several distinct water masses. CREAMS data further confirmed the earlier observations of Gamo et al. (1986) that properties in Deep Waters in the East Sea have been changing during at least the last 25 years. There is evidence, especially from the analysis of the DO profile, that these changes may result from a major change in the mode of deep water formation: from bottom water formation in the past to intermediate/deep water formation in recent years. The causes for these changes are not clear at the present time, but nay include natural variation and may also reflect recent global changes in regional scale. A moving-boundary box model is presented to describe current observations, predicting the turnover time of the total deep and bottom waters to the cold surface waters to be ${\sim}$80 years in 1996.

• Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.150-158
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• 2007

Data on squid catches, water temperature, and climatic factors collected for the Northwest and subtropical North Pacific were analyzed to examine the influence of oceanic and climatic conditions in spawning grounds on catches of Japanese common squid, Todarodes pacificus, in the East (Japan) Sea. The main spawning ground was divided into four sub-areas: the South Sea of Korea (R1), the southern waters off Jeju, Korea (R2), the southwestern part of Kyushu, Japan (R3), and the northern part of Okinawa, Japan (R4). Interannual and decadal fluctuations in water temperatures correlated well with squid catches in the East/Japan Sea. In particular, water temperatures at a depth of 50 to 100 m in sub-areas R3 and R4 showed higher correlation coefficients (0.54 to 0.59, p<0.01) in relation to squid catches in the East/Japan Sea than for R1 and R2, which had correlation coefficients of 0.40 or less (p>0.05). Air temperature and wind velocity fluctuations in each sub-area are correlated with water temperature fluctuations and were closely connected with variations in the surface mixed layers. Water, air temperatures and wind velocities at the main spawning grounds are linked to the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) with higher signals in the ca. 2-4-year band. Strong changes in a specific band and phase occurred around 1976/77 and 1986/87, coincident with changes in squid catches.

• 에너지공학
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.567-575
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• 1999

한국동해 연근해역의 표층수온은 일반적으로 온대해역에서의 표층수온과 같이 계절변화를 하지만, 심층에서는 연중 1 $^{\circ}C$이하의 온도를 유지하는데 동해고유수로 인하여 표층의 온수와 심층의 냉수간의 온도차를 이용한 해양온도차 발전의 충분한 잠재성이 있다. 해양온도차 발전의 제 1 조건인 표층수와 심층수간의 온도차에 관련된 한국 동해의 해양 환경적 특성을 정량화 하고자 온도차에 대한 연평균, 연진폭, 연위상을 구하고 연중 15$^{\circ}C$이상의 온도차가 유지된는 기간을 일일 단위로 표현하였다. 한국동해 연근 해역 중 온도차 발전의 최적합 해역은 포항 동쪽 35km 해역 (36$^{\circ}$05'N, 129$^{\circ}$48'E)에서 55km 해역 (36$^{\circ}$05'N, 130$^{\circ}$00'E)까지로 조사 연구되었다. 이들 최적합 해역에서는 온도차는 8월의 경우 누년 평균 약 24$^{\circ}C$로 나타났으며, 년 중 15$^{\circ}C$이상의 온도차가 유지되는 기간은 최대 215일 (5/5-12/10)로 나타났다. 아울러 이 해역에서 온도차의 연진폭은 6$^{\circ}C$이며 , 연위상은 236$^{\circ}$로 계획성있는 전력생산을 할수 있을것으로 사료된다. 한국 동해 연근해역에서 표층으로부터 수직으로 최단거리에 존재하는 동해고유수(수온 1$^{\circ}C$이하의 해수)의 수심에 대한 계절변화는 평균 300m를 중심으로 하여 50m 미만의 작은 변동폭을 나타내었다. 향후 이러한 안정된 위치를 나타내는 심층 냉수를 에너지로 전환하기 위한 연구가 수행되어야 할 것으로 판단된다.

• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.11-19
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• 2016

한국 주변 해역에서 수온과 살오징어 유생 분포와의 관계를 파악하기 위해 서해 중부(2013년 8월), 동중국해 북부(2013년 8월), 동해 남부연안(2013년 6월, 11월, 2014년 4월, 5월, 6월, 8월, 9월) 등 3개 해역에서 유생 채집과 CTD 조사를 하였다. 유생 채집은 망구 직경 60 cm, 망목 $333{\mu}m$의 Bongo net를 조사선 속도 2-3 knot에 맞춰 저층 부근에서 표층까지 경사채집(oblique tow) 하였다. 서해 중부에서는 오징어 유생이 발견되지 않았으며, 동중국해 북부에서는 외투장 1.0 mm의 1 개체가 발견되었다. 동해에서는 총 39 개체의 유생이 발견되었으며, 외투장 범위는 1.9-13.5 mm이다. 2013년 8월 서해 중부의 표층 수온은 약 $30^{\circ}C$인 반면 30 m 이하에서는 $10^{\circ}C$ 이하로 낮게 나타나 살오징어 유생의 생존에 적합한 수온($15-24^{\circ}C$)의 공간적 분포가 좁았다. 동중국해 북부의 표층 수온은 $31^{\circ}C$에 이르는 고온이며, 50 m 이하 수심에서도 $20^{\circ}C$ 이상의 수온이 분포하여 비교적 깊은 수심에 유생이 분포하는 것으로 추정되었다. 동해 남부 연안에서는 관측기간 동안 유생의 생존에 적합한 수온이 75 m보다 얕았다.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제50권2호
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• pp.207-218
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• 2017

Seawater with salinity of 32.5 psu or less is observed in the southern Japan/East Sea (JES) every autumn. It is confined to a surface layer 30-45 m in depth that expands to cover the entire JES in October. Two sources of "autumn low-salinity water" have been identified from historical hydrographic data in the western JES: East China Sea (ECS) water mixed with fresh water discharge from the Yangtze River (Changjiang) and seawater diluted with melted sea ice in the northern JES. Low-salinity water inflow from the ECS begins in June and reaches its peak in September. Low-salinity water from the northern JES expands southward along the coast, and its horizontal distribution varies among years. A rare observational study of the entire JES in October 1969 indicated that water with salinity less than 33.0 psu covered the southwestern JES; the lowest salinity water was found near the Ulleung Basin. In October 1995, the vertical distribution of salinity observed in a meridional section revealed that water with salinity of 33.6 psu or less was present in the area north of the subpolar front.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.287-302
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• 2003

The seasonal variations in the circulation of the water mass in the East Sea/Japan Sea have been simulated using a free surface primitive ocean model, RIAMOM (RIAM Ocean Model), comparing the results from GFDL-MOM1 (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Modular Ocean Model, version 1.1, hereafter MOM) with the GDEM (Generalized Digital Environmental Model) data. Both models appear to successfully reproduce the distinct features of circulation in the East Sea/Japan Sea, such as the NB (Nearshore Branch) flowing along the Japanese coast, the EKWC (East Korean Warm Current) flowing northward along the Korean coast, and the NKCC/LCC (North Korean Cold Current/Liman Cold Current) flowing southwestward along Korean/Russian coast. RIAMOM has shown better performance, compared to MOM, in terms of the realistic simulation of the flow field in the East Sea/Japan Sea; RIAMOM has produced more rectified flows on the coastal region, for example, the narrower and stronger NKCC/LCC than MOM has. There is however obvious differences between the model results and the GDEM data in terms of the calculation of the water mass; both models have shown a tendency to overpredict temperature and underpredict salinity below 50m; more diffusive forms of thermocline and halocline have been simulated than noted in GDEM data.