• 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.

• Ocean Science Journal
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.255-260
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• 2006

Long-term variability in the intermediate layer of the eastern Japan Basin has been investigated to understand the variability of water mass formation in the East Sea. The simultaneous decrease of temperature at shallower depths and oxygen increasing at deeper depths in the intermediate layer took place in the late 1960's sand the mid-1980's. Records of winter sea surface temperatures and air temperatures showed that there were cold winters that persisted for several years during those periods. Therefore, it was assumed that a large amount of newly-formed water was supplied to the intermediate layer during those cold winters. Close analysis suggests that the formation of the Upper Portion of Proper Water occurred in the late 1960's and the Central Water in the mid-1980's.

• 한국환경과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국환경과학회 2003년도 International Symposium on Clean Environment
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• pp.145-150
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• 2003

16 APEX floats, autonomous profiling floats deployed as part of the Array for Real-time Geostrophic Oceanography (ARGO) program, are used to understand the currents at 800 m underwater in the southwestern East Sea. The flow penetrates into the Ulleung basin (UB) through two paths： an extension of the southward flowing the North Korean Cold Water along the east coast of Korea and between Ulleung Island and Dok island. Flows at 800 m are observed range 0.2 to 4.29 cm/sec and the variability in the north in the DB is stronger than that in the south. The eddy kinetic energy is found a few $cm^{2}$ $S^{-2}$. In the UB, cyclonic flows from 0.3 - 1.6 cm/see are observed with the bottom topography.

• 한국해양학회지:바다
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.21-30
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• 2006

본 연구는 2003년 10월부터 2005년 8월까지의 ARGO 뜰개에 의해 수집된 CTD 자료를 이용하여 울릉도 주변 해역의 수온-염분의 시공간 변동 양상을 분석하였다. 울릉도 주변 해역 상층 700m에서의 수괴는 5종류로 세분할 수 있으며, 가을 표층에는 여름의 고온저염수에 비해 더 저온저염화 된 수괴가 존재한다. 염분최소층을 갖는 동해중층수는 평균적으로 수심 265 m에 존재하며, 수온은 $1\~5^{\circ}C$염분 34.06 psu이하이고 평균 두께는 175m이다. 동해중층수의 두께는 시공간적으로 크게 변하지 않지만, 울릉난수성 소용돌이가 존재하는 경우 동해중층수의 위치 수심은 더 깊어지고, 이 영향으로 상부동해고유수의 수심 또한 저층으로 침강하게 된다. 본 자료에 의하면, 울릉난수성 소용돌이가 갖는 볼록렌즈 모양의 수온 구조는 700m수심까지 존재한다. ARGO 뜰개들이 수집한 약 2년의 측정 기간과 짧은 시간 간격의 수직 수온-염분 프로파일 자료는 연구 해역의 상세 수직 구조 및 단기 시간-공간 변동성을 이해하는데 대단히 유용하였다.