• Journal of the korean society of oceanography
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.119-135
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• 2004

A three-dimensional numerical model using POM (the Princeton Ocean Model) is established in order to understand the dispersion processes of the Yangtze River water in the Yellow and East China Seas. The circulation experiments for the seas are conducted first, and then on the bases of the results the dispersion experiments for the river water are executed. For the experiments, we focus on the tide effects and wind effects on the processes. Four cases of systematic experiments are conducted. They comprise the followings: a reference case with no tide and no wind, of tide only, of wind only, and of both tide and wind. Throughout this study, monthly mean values are used for the Kuroshio Current input in the southern boundary of the model domain, for the transport through the Korea Strait, for the river discharge, for the sea surface wind, and for the heat exchange rate across the air-sea interface. From the experiments, we obtained the following results. The circulation of the seas in winter is dependent on the very strong monsoon wind as several previous studies reported. The wintertime dispersion of the Yangtze River water follows the circulation pattern flowing southward along the east coast of China due to the strong monsoon wind. Some observed salinity distributions support these calculation results. In summertime, generally, low-salinity water from the river tends to spread southward and eastward as a result of energetic vertical mixing processes due to the strong tidal current, and to spread more eastward due to the southerly wind. The tide effect for the circulation and dispersion of the river water near the river mouth is a dominant factor, but the southerly wind is still also a considerable factor. Due to both effects, two major flow directions appear near the river mouth. One of them is a northern branch flow in the northeast area of the river mouth moving eastward mainly due to the weakened southerly wind. The other is a southern branch flow directed toward the southeastern area off the river mouth mostly caused by tide and wind effects. In this case, however, the tide effect is more dominant than the wind effect. The distribution of the low salinity water follows the circulation pattern fairly well.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.337-348
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• 2012

This study investigates the effects of tide, wind and oceanic currents on oil spill dispersions through a series of numerical floats tracking experiments on the Sea Prince oil spill incident occurred in 1995 using a 3-dimensional high resolution ocean circulation model. For that, a total of four experimental cases (experiment with tide, wind and oceanic currents, experiment with tide and oceanic currents, experiment with wind and oceanic currents, and experiment with tide and wind) were compared. It could be seen that results from experiment involving all external forces showed better agreement with the observed pattern of oil slick movement than other cases. The oceanic currents acted to drive floats to move to the western channel of the Korea straits and wind accelerated the eastward movement of floats in the early stage of the incident. Tidal currents played significant role in the horizontal dispersion of floats.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제25권spc3호
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• pp.361-371
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• 2003

The effect of bottom friction on the steady wind-driven circulation in the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea (YSECS) has been studied using a two-dimensional numerical model with and without tidal forcing. Upwind flow experiment in YSECS has also been carried out with a schematic time variation in the wind field. The surface water setup and circulation pattern due to steady wind forcing are found to be very sensitive to the bottom friction. When the effects of tidal currents are neglected, the overall current velocities are overestimated and eddies of various sizes appear, upwind flow is formed within the deep trough of the Yellow Sea, forming a part of the topographic gyre on the side of Korea. When tidal forcing is taken into account, the wind-induced surface elevations are smoothed out due to the strong tide-induced bottom friction, which is aligned almost normal to the wind stresses; weak upwind flow is farmed in the deep trough of the Yellow Sea, west and south of Jeju. Calculation with wind forcing only through a parameterized linear bottom friction produces almost same results from the calculation with $M_2$ tidal forcing and wind forcing using a quadratic bottom friction, supporting Hunter (1975)'s linearization of bottom friction which includes the effect of tidal current, can be applied to the simulation of wind-driven circulation in YSECS. The results show that steady wind forcing is not a dominant factor to the winter-time upwind flow in YSECS. Upwind flow experiment which considers the relaxation of pressure gradient (Huesh et al. 1986) shows that 1) a downwind flow is dominant over the whole YSECS when the northerly wind reaches a maximum speed; 2) a trend of upwind flow near the trough is found during relaxation when the wind abates; 3) a northward flow dominates over the YSECS after the wind stops. The results also show that the upwind flow in the trough of Yellow Sea is forced by a wind-induced longitudinal surface elevation gradient.

• Journal of the korean society of oceanography
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.185-199
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• 1999

With a realistic geography and topography the Princeton Ocean Model is used to study the effects of topography, wind and time-varying Chanajiang (Yangtze) River discharge on the dispersion of the Chanaiiang River plume in the Yellow and East China Seas. The topographic feature of deepening offshore suppresses the offshore expansion of the discharged low salinity water while spreading along the coast is not hindered. Also the spreading of the Chanajiang River plume is very sensitive to wind conditions and the southerly wind is most responsible for the eastward expansion toward the Cheju Island. It is also shown that the influence of the Chanajiang River Diluted Water on the hydrography and circulation of the Yellow Sea including the South Sea of Korea is substantial even in the absence of tide, wind and current.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.223-242
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• 2001

This paper presents the depth-mean monthly variation in the circulation of the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea computed using a robust diagnostic model. The mixed three-dimensional finite-difference Galerkin function model developed by Lee et at. (2000, 2001) has been extended to take into account baroclinic effects and then used to calculate the depth-mean flow fields as part of the results. In addition to M2 tide and oceanic flows previously considered, the model has been driven by the monthly mean wind stresses from Na and Seo (1998), the density gradient calculated based on by GDEM data set released by US Navy. Model results are very encouraging in that many of observed features including Jeju Cyclonic Gyre and frontal eddies along the shelfside of the Kuroshio main stream and west of Kyushu, are satisfactorily reproduced and are expected to be of value in interpreting observations in various oceanograhic disciplines.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.754-770
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• 1994

미국 북캐롤라이나의 동해안에 위치하는 뉴우스강 하구를 대상으로 1988년 2월부터 1989년 2월까지 매월 부유퇴적물의 분포와 유속 및 염분을 조사하여, 최대혼탁수의 형성과 물리적 환경요인(담수유출량, 풍향 및 풍속, 조석 등)에 따른 시간적, 공간적 변화를 조사하였다. 대부분의 조사기간동안, 염하구 순환과 관련된 미약한 최대혼탁수의 형성이 염수 침입한계 근처에서 관측되었으며, 염수 침입한계의 연중 이동과 수반하여 강 상류의 약 20 km 지역에 걸쳐 이동하면서 분포하였다. 이 지역 계절풍의 주된 풍향(북동-남서)과 Pamlico Sound의 지형적 방향성의 일치로 인하여, 염분 성충구조와 염하구 순환의 발달정도는 바람의 영향을 크게 받으며, 따라서 최대혼탁수의 형성과 변동 양상도 조석의 영향보다는 담수유출량과 바람의 영향을 뚜렷이 나타내었다.

• 한국해양학회지:바다
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.77-100
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• 2024

진해·마산만에 대한 연구는 그동안 해수순환, 조석, 조류, 적조, 수질, 빈산소 환경을 주제로 많이 연구되었으나 주로 단기간 동안 일어나는 해양현상에 대해 연구가 수행되었으며, 만 전체적인 해수순환을 일으키는 물리적 기작을 자세히 살펴본 연구는 부족했다. 오염 물질의 이동과 확산 같은 현상은 주로 계절별로 변동성이 크기 때문에, 이 연구에서는 진해·마산만 해역의 해수순환이 계절적으로 어떻게 변동하는지를 파악하고자 하였다. 이를 위하여 3차원 해양 순환 모델을 이용하여 2016년부터 2018년까지 진해·마산만의 해수순환을 수치모의하고, 여름철과 겨울철 해수순환을 표층, 중층, 저층에 대하여 살펴보았다. 또한 조석, 바람, 담수 유입에 대한 민감도 실험을 수행하여 각 요인들이 해수 유동에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 진해·마산만의 해수순환은 가덕수도 저층에서 대한해협의 해수가 유입되고, 표층에서 진해·마산만의 해수가 유출되는 대류성 염하구 순환이 일어난다. 가덕수도를 통해 교환되는 해수의 순환은 크게 진해만 동부해역과 진해만 서부해역으로 나누어져 일어난다. 각 해역의 수로 방향을 기준으로 해수 수송량을 계산하였을 때, 진해만 동부해역의 남북방향 해수 교환 수송량은 진해만 서부해역에서 일어나는 동서방향 해수 교환량보다 겨울철에는 2.3배, 여름철에는 1.4배 크다. 진해만 서부해역은 계절별로 작용하는 힘들의 균형이 변화하여 해수순환 특성이 계절에 따라 크게 다르다. 겨울철에는 북서풍이 만드는 전단응력과 해수면 기울기의 영향으로 표층 해류가 남쪽으로, 저층 해류는 북쪽으로 흐르는 남북방향 대류성 순환이 강화된다. 반면, 남서풍이 부는 여름철에는 바람 응력에 의해 표층 해수가 동쪽으로 유출되고, 또한 남동쪽 해수면이 높아 북쪽 방향 순압성 압력경도력이 커져 동쪽 방향 유속이 강화된다. 저층에서는 밀도 구배가 커져 경압성 압력경도력이 남쪽으로 크게 작용하여 지형류 균형에 의해 가덕수도의 해수가 서쪽으로 강하게 유입하는 동서방향 대류성 순환이 겨울철보다 26% 강화된다. 진해만 서부의 대류성 순환은 겨울과 여름 모두 조류와 바람의 영향을 크게 받는다. 진해만 동부해역과 마산만에서는 모든 계절에 표층에서는 해수가 외해로 유출되고, 저층에서는 해수가 만 안쪽으로 유입되는 전형적인 염하구 순환을 보였다. 겨울철에는 바람과 담수유입이, 여름철에는 조류의 영향이 남북방향 염하구 순환 규모에 크게 기여하였다. 진해만 동부해역에는 지형의 영향을 받아 형성된 조석 잔차류도 뚜렷하다. 이 연구에서 제시한 진해·마산만의 계절별 해수순환 특성은 이 해역의 오염물질 확산, 여름철 빈산소수괴의 형성 기작 파악, 적조 생물의 유입과 유출을 이해하는 데 도움이 될 것으로 기대된다.