• 제목/요약/키워드: Kuroshio Current Area

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Clay Minerals of the Bottom Sediments on the Northwestern Continental Shelf in the East China Sea

  • Park, Yong-Ahn;Khim, Boo-Keun;Nam, Jung-Man;Youn, Jeung-Su
    • 한국지구과학회지
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    • 제25권1호
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2004
  • The clay minerals of thirty-four bottom sediments collected from the northwestern continental shelf of the East China Sea have been determined by X-ray diffraction analysis. The clay mineral distribution is mainly controlled by the sediment source and the dominant circulation pattern. The predominant clay mineral in our study area is illite comprising more-than 70% of whole clay fraction. The highest concentration of illite (>72%) is found in the southeastern offshore parts beyond the reach of terrigenous input from the Cheju Island. It means that these illites are largely transported by the Kuroshio Current from the South China Sea. Smectite is highly concentrated in the northwest middle part and in the outer-shelf mud patch. It seems to be due to the high supply of smectite transported from China where the fine-grained sediments are discharged from the modern and ancient Huanghe River. The relatively high abundance of kaolinite is likely derived from the Changjiang River via Taiwan ·Warm Current. In contrast, the large amounts of chlorite and high chlorite/kaolinite ratios occur in the northwestern are, reflecting the transportation by the Huanghai Sea Coastal Current from the southern Yellow Sea.

Observations of the Cheju Current

  • Suk, Moon-Sik;Pang, Ig-Chan;Teague, William J.;Chang, Kyung-Il
    • Journal of the korean society of oceanography
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    • 제35권3호
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    • pp.129-152
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    • 2000
  • The Cheju Current (CC), defined here as a mean eastward flow in the Cheju Strait, mostly carries water of high temperature and salinity originating from the Kuroshio in winter and spring, the Cheju Warm Current Water (CWCW). The strong core of the eastward component of the CC is found close to Cheju Island (Cheju-Do, hereafter) in winter and spring with a peak speed of about 17.0 cm/s. The eastward flow weakens towards the northern Cheju Strait, and a weak westward flow occurs occasionally close to the southern coast of Korea. The volume transport ranges from 0.37 to 0.45 Sv(1 Sv=10$^6$ m$^3$/s) in winter and spring. Seasonal thermocline and harocline are formed in summer and eroded in November. The occurrence of the CWCW is confined in the southern Cheju Strait close to Cheju-Do below the seasonal thermocline in summer and fall, and cold water occupies the lower layer north of the CWCW which is thought to be brought into the area from the area west of Cheju-Do along with the CWCW. Stratification acts to increase both the speed of the CC with a peak speed of greater than 30 cm/s and the vertical shear of the along-strait currents. The strong core of the CC detached from the coast of Cheju-Do and shifted to the north during the stratified seasons. The volume transport in summer and fall ranges 0.510.66 Sv, which is about 1.5 times larger than that in winter and spring. An annual cycle of the cross-strait sea level difference shows its maximum in summer and fall and minimum in winter and spring, whose tendency is consistent with the annual variability of the CC and its transport estimated from the ADCP measurements. Moored current measurements west of Cheju-Do indicate the clockwise turning of the CC, and the moored current measurements in the Cheju Strait for 1530 days show the low-frequency variability of the along-strait flow with a period of about 37 days.

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The Yellow Sea Warm Current and the Yellow Sea Cold Bottom Water, Their Impact on the Distribution of Zooplankton in the Southern Yellow Sea

  • Wang, Rong;Zuo, Tao
    • Journal of the korean society of oceanography
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    • 제39권1호
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    • pp.1-13
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    • 2004
  • The Yellow Sea Warm Current (YSWC) and the Yellow Sea Cold Bottom Water (YSCBW) are two protruding features, which have strong influence on the community structure and distribution of zooplankton in the Yellow Sea. Both of them are seasonal phenomena. In winter, strong north wind drives southward flow at the surface along both Chinese and Korean coasts, which is compensated by a northward flow along the Yellow Sea Trough. That is the YSWC. It advects warmer and saltier water from the East China Sea into the southern Yellow Sea and changes the zooplankton community structure greatly in winter. During a cruise after onset of the winter monsoon in November 2001 in the southern Yellow Sea, 71 zooplankton species were identified, among which 39 species were tropical, accounting for 54.9 %, much more than those found in summer. Many of them were typical for Kuroshio water, e.g. Eucalanus subtenuis, Rhincalanus cornutus, Pareuchaeta russelli, Lucicutia flavicornis, and Euphausia diomedeae etc. 26 species were warm-temperate accounting for 36.6% and 6 temperate 8.5%. The distribution pattern of the warm water species clearly showed the impact of the YSWC and demonstrated that the intrusion of warmer and saltier water happened beneath the surface northwards along the Yellow Sea Trough. The YSCBW is a bottom pool of the remnant Yellow Sea Winter Water resulting from summer stratification and occupy most of the deep area of the Yellow Sea. The temperature of YSCBW temperature remains ${\leq}{\;}10^{\circ}C$ in mid-summer. It is served as an oversummering site for many temperate species, like Calanus sinicus and Euphaisia pacifica. Calanus sinicus is a dominant copepod in the Yellow Sea and East China Sea and can be found throughout the year with the year maximum in May to June. In summer it disappears in the coastal area and in the upper layer of central area due to the high temperature and shrinks its distribution into YSCBW.

지구시스템모형을 이용한 황동중국해 이산화탄소분압 분포 특성 평가 (Assesment of pCO2 in the Yellow and East China Sea Using an Earth System Model)

  • 박영규;최상화;김철호
    • Ocean and Polar Research
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    • 제33권4호
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    • pp.447-455
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    • 2011
  • Using results from an earth system model, the distribution of partial pressure of $CO_2$ ($pCO_2$) in surface seawater over the East China Sea is investigated. In this area $pCO_2$ shows minimum along the edge of the continental break along the path of the Taiwan-Tsushima Current System. Apparently modelled chlorophyll is also great along the current but the maximum of the chlorophyll and the minimum of $pCO_2$ do not coincide suggesting that the primary production is not the main cause of the $pCO_2$ minimum. As we move toward the Yellow Sea from the Kuroshio area the temperature decreases so that the $pCO_2$ becomes smaller. If we move further toward the Yellow Sea beyond the Taiwan-Tsushima Current System, alkalinity starts to drop substantially to intensify $pCO_2$ while overcoming the effect of decreasing temperature and salinity. Thus $pCO_2$ minimum occurs along the Taiwan-Tsushima Current System. Of course, the primary production lower $pCO_2$ during spring when it is high but the effect is local. Near the Yangtze river mouth and northeastern corner of the Yellow Sea the fresh water input is large enough and dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) becomes low enough so that $pCO_2$ becomes lower again.

Comparative Analysis of Surface Heat Fluxes in the East Asian Marginal Seas and Its Acquired Combination Data

  • Sim, Jung-Eun;Shin, Hong-Ryeol;Hirose, Naoki
    • 한국지구과학회지
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    • 제39권1호
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    • pp.1-22
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    • 2018
  • Eight different data sets are examined in order to gain insight into the surface heat flux traits of the East Asian marginal seas. In the case of solar radiation of the East Sea (Japan Sea), Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments ver. 2 (CORE2) and the Objectively Analyzed Air-Sea Fluxes (OAFlux) are similar to the observed data at meteorological stations. A combination is sought by averaging these as well as the Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) and the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)-1 data to acquire more accurate surface heat flux for the East Asian marginal seas. According to the Combination Data, the annual averages of net heat flux of the East Sea, Yellow Sea, and East China Sea are -61.84, -22.42, and $-97.54Wm^{-2}$, respectively. The Kuroshio area to the south of Japan and the southern East Sea were found to have the largest upward annual mean net heat flux during winter, at -460- -300 and at $-370--300Wm^{-2}$, respectively. The long-term fluctuation (1984-2004) of the net heat flux shows a trend of increasing transport of heat from the ocean into the atmosphere throughout the study area.

원격탐사를 이용한 한반도 주변해역의 해면변화 및 표층순환 (Sea level observations in the Korean seas by remote sensing)

  • 윤홍주;김승철;변혜경;황화정
    • 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국해양정보통신학회 2003년도 추계종합학술대회
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    • pp.339-342
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    • 2003
  • 1993년에서 1997년까지의 위성고도계 자료(Topex/Poseidon)를 이용하여 한반도 주변해역의 해면 변화와 표층흐름을 조사하였다. 해면변화를 보면, 동해에 비해서 서해와 남해는 항상 상대적으로 높았다. 전 조사 기간에 걸쳐서 서해는 북부와 남부 해역에서 각각20-30cm와 18-24cm의 변화범위를 보였으며, 남해는 제주도 북서부 해역에서는 15-20cm 그리고 쓰시마섬 남서부 해역에서는 10-15cm의 변화범위를 각각 나타내었다. 서해의 경우에 황해난류의 표층 유입류와 해저 지형류의 영향을 받아 높은 변화를 보였다. 남해의 경우는 변화가 일어나는 두 곳 모두가 근원적으로는 쿠로시오 해류의 흐름에서 분기된 지류들의 흐름(제주난류와 동한난류) 때문에 해면변화를 보였다. 표층 순환은 동해에서 북한한류, 동한난류와 쓰시마 난류와 관련한 세가지 와류운동이 두드러지게 나타났다. 와류운동은 기본적으로 표층 순환에서 해류의 영향을 받았다; 원산만 앞바다의 반시계방향(0.03 cm/sec)의 흐름은 북한한류, 울릉도 남서쪽 해역의 시계방향(0.06 cm/sec)의 흐름은 동한난류, 그리고 쓰시마섬 북서쪽 해역은 쓰시마 난류와 각각 관계되어있는 것으로 보인다.

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초여름 韓國 西南海域 植物플랑크톤의 群集構造와 分布 (Community Structure and Spatial Distribution of Phytoplankton in the Southwestern Sea of Korea, in Early Summer)

  • 심재형;박용철
    • 한국해양학회지
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    • 제19권1호
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    • pp.68-81
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    • 1984
  • 한국 서남해역에 있어서 식물플랑크톤의 군집구조와 분포를 밝히기 위하여 1980년 여름에 수평적, 수직적으로 채집한 정량 자료를 분석하였다. 연구해역은 상이한 水塊를 대표하는 상이한 3개의 특징적인 군집을 이루고 있음을 보여준다. 제 1 군집은 대부분 연안성 및 내수성 硅藻類로 구성되어 서남해의 연안 수역을 대표하며, 제 2 군집은 외양성 및 연안성 구조류와 2-3종의 鞭毛藻類로 구성되어 黑潮의 지류로 생각되는 高鹽 水性인 제주 부근의 수역을 대표한다. 제 3 군집은 주로 소형인 鞭毛藻류와 微細藻類로 구성되고 底鹽 수성인 중간 수역을 대표하는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 식물플랑크톤과 환경요인의 수직분포에서 세포수, chlorophyll-a, 및 용존산소등이 특히 계절적인 pycnocline 부근의 수층에서 높은 농도를 보여준다. nanoplankton은 군집내에서 90% 이상에 이를 만큼 점유율을 보여 중요성이 높음을 나타낸다.

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Seasonal variation in depth-stratified macroalgal assemblage patterns on Marado, Jeju Island, Korea

  • Kang, Jeong Chan;Kim, Myung Sook
    • ALGAE
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    • 제27권4호
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    • pp.269-281
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    • 2012
  • Marado is a small rocky island located off the south coast of Jeju Island and acts as the first gateway of the Kuroshio Current to Korean coastal ecosystems. This island is one of the most unpolluted and well preserved sea areas around the Jeju coast. We extensively observed macroalgal assemblages of species and functional forms in the intertidal and subtidal zones through four seasons on Marado, Jeju Island, Korea to demonstrate the seasonality of vertical distribution patterns and biomass. A total of 144 species (14 Chlorophyta, 40 Phaeophyta, and 90 Rhodophyta) were identified in quadrats and were analyzed seasonally and vertically to define the variation patterns. The annual mean biomass of macroalgae was $2,932.3g\;wet\;wt\;m^{-2}$ and the highest value was recorded in spring and the lowest was in winter. The annual dominant species by biomass was Ecklonia cava followed by Sargassum fusiforme, S. macrocarpum, Amphiroa galapagensis, Chondria crassicaulis, and S. thunbergii. Obvious biomass zonation patterns of macroalgal species were detected in relation to tidal height and depth. Macroalgal biomass, diversity index (H'), and community dynamics were the highest in the shallow subtidal zone. Species number was higher in the subtidal than in the intertidal zone and similar throughout the entire subtidal zone. Our results provide revealing insights into the distribution patterns of macroalgal assemblages in an unpolluted sea area around Jeju Island.

진도산 해초류의(Ascidians)의 분류 (The Ascidians (Tunicata) from Chindo Islands, Korea)

  • Boon Jo Rho
    • Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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    • 제11권1호
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    • pp.125-145
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    • 1995
  • 진도산 해초류의 분류학적 연구를 위하여 1994년 7월과 11월에 진도의 5개 지역(접도, 보전, 군포, 해동, 금갑)에서 채집된 재료들을 정리한 결과 13종과 1974년 8월에 진도의 4개지역(가학, 녹진, 접도, 가사도)에서 채집하여 이미 보고된 7종을 합하면 모두 7과 11속 16종이다. 이들 모두는 한국산 해초류에 보고된 종들이나 이 중 7과 9종은 진도산 해초류로서 처음 밝혀지는 종들이다. 이들 16종에 대한 수성별 구성은 온수역종이 8종(50%), 그 다음이 온-열대수역종으로서 7종(44%), 열대수역종은 1종(6%)이었다. 그러나 한수역 및 한-온수역종은 전연 나타나지 않았다. 이러한 사실은 진도가 우리나라 황해 남단에 위치하고 있어 남쪽에서 올라오는 쿠로시오난류의 지류에 영향을 받는다는 사실과 부합한다.

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해수면변화와 해저지형에 의한 난류수의 순환과 그 기원 (Warm Water Circulation and its Origin by Sea Level Fluctuation and Bottom Topography)

  • 방익찬;오임상
    • 한국수산과학회지
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    • 제28권5호
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    • pp.677-697
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    • 1995
  • 우리나라, 일본, 러시아 해역에서 관측된 조위관측 자료에서 얻은 해수면의 장주기변화를 기상과의 관계로 분석해 본 결과, 기상의 효과는 해역에 따라 다르지만 전반적으로 해수면변화의 절반 정도를 설명해주는 것으로 나타났다 해수운동에 의하여 발생하는 해수면변화는 대마해류역에서 가장 크며 대마해류의 영향을 적게 받는 곳일수록 작아져 해수면변화가 대마해류와 관계 있음을 보여준다. 순압해수면 변화가 허용된 수치모델을 사용하여 해수면변화가 해수순환에 미치는 영향을 알아보았다. 그 결과 기본적인 해류형태는 Pang et al. (1993)에 의해 수행된 GCM (Semtner)모델의 결과와 같이 대만 주변 해역에서 지균형조정을 거친 후 등수심선을 따라 대한해협으로 흐르지만, 순압해수면 변화의 허용에 의해 일부 해수가 황해의 중앙을 따라 황해로 유입된 후 서해안을 따라 남하하여 유출되는 황해의 기본순환형태가 나타났다. 이와 함께 쿠로시오해류에 변화를 가할 때 순압해수면 변화에 의해 대륙붕에 장주기파동이 뚜렷해지며 이 파동으로 황해의 기본순환형태가 교란되어 해수가 서해안을 따라 북상하는 순환형태도 나타났다. 황해순환은 겨울철에는 기본순환형태가 북서 계절풍에 의해 강화되고 여름철에는 파동에 의해 교란된 순환구조에 남동계절풍이 합세하는 것으로 보인다. 장주기파동에 의해 나타나는 다른 특징은 대마해류 기원해역의 변화 가능성이다. 지금까지 대마해류의 기원해역은 크게 큐슈섬 남서해역과 대만 주변해역으로 대립되어 왔다. 그러나 이 연구결과는 이들은 서로 위배되는 것이라기 보다는 대마해류 기원의 중요한 두 해역이며 장주기파동에 의해 한쪽이 강화되어 나타나는 것을 보인다. 쿠로시오해류의 변화에 의해 대만 주변해역에 가해진 파동은 강제파로 대한해협으로 전파되며 대한해협에 이르러 일본연안의 파동은 동해로 계속 전파되는 반면, 우리나라 연안의 파동은 해저지형에 의해 반사하게 된다. 반사된 파동은 자유파로 동중국해 대륙붕을 따라 남서방향으로 진행하며 북동방향으로 진행하는 강제파와 더불어 동중국해의 해수면변화를 결정하게 된다.

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