• Ocean Science Journal
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.67-79
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• 2008

We investigated the relationship between mesoscale spatial distribution of environmental parameters (temperature, salinity, and sigma-t), chlorophyll-a concentration and mesozooplankton in the Yellow Sea during May 1996, 1997, and 1998, with special reference to Yellow Sea Bottom Cold Water (YSBCW). Adult calanoid copepods, Calanus sinicus, Paracalanus parvus s.l., Acartia omorii, and Centropages abdominalis were isolated by BVSTEP analysis based on the consistent explainable percentage (-32.3%) of the total mesozooplankton distributional pattern. The copepods, which accounted for 60 to 87% of the total abundances, occupied 73-78% of the copepod community. The YSBCW consistently remained in the northern part of the study area and influenced the spatial distribution of the calanoid copepods during the study periods. Abundances of C. sinicus and P. parvus s.l., which were high outside the YSBCW, were positively correlated with the whole water average temperature (p<0.01). In contrast, the abundances of C. abdominalis and A. omorii, which were relatively high in the YSBCW, were associated with the integrated chl-a concentration based on factor analysis. These results indicate that the YSBCW influenced the mesoscale spatial heterogeneity of average temperature and integrated chl-a concentration through the water column. This consequently affected the spatial distribution pattern of the dominant copepods in association with their respective preferences for environmental and biological parameters in the Yellow Sea during spring.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제47권4호
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• pp.419-423
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• 2014

We consider changes in the fishing ground of the small yellow croaker Larimichthys polyactis and discuss their utility in predicting fishing conditions for this species. The fishing ground, which having been formed around Jeju Island since the 1970s, is dominated by the Yellow Sea Bottom Cold Water (YSBCW), and variation in its southward expansion from the Yellow Sea is the single most key environmental factor affecting the L. polyactis catch. When the YSBCW showed strong expansion and the fishing ground shifted to the west and southwest of Jeju Island, as occurred in the late 1980s, late 1990s, and early 2000s, the L. polyactis catch was low; conversely, when expansion was weak, as in the early 1990s and late 2000s, the L. polyactis catch was high. This relationship was statistically significant and should be useful in predicting fishing conditions for L. polyactis.

• Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.14-22
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• 2000

The relationship between the distribution of demersal fishes and that of the water masses was examined by using the catches data and hydrographic data in the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea on May 13-19, 1996 and May 10-17, 1997. During the study period, the dominant fish species were Cleisthenes pinetorum herzinsteini, Lophiomus setigerus and Pseudosciaena polyactis. These three low temperature water species accounted for $21-24\%$ of the total catches. The percentage of the low temperature water species was high in the Yellow Sea and the coastal area on the continental shelf of the East China Sea but was low in the vincinity of Kyushu during the study period. In the East China Sea, the isotherm of $15^{\circ}C$ at 50m, mid layer depth, was located more southeast in 1996 than in 1997. The bottom water temperature was about it lower in 1996 than in 1997. The direction of the detided current on the continental shelf of the East China Sea was southward in 1996 and northward in 1997. Yellow Sea Bottom Cold Water (YSBCW) strongly expanded to south in 1996 when the northward current was weak. But, Tsushima Warm Current (TSWC) strongly intruded into the continental shelf of the East China Sea in 1997. As YSBCW expanded strongly to south in 1996, the percentage of the low temperature water species relative to the total catches was high. But, TSWC strongly intruded and the percentage of low temperature water fishes was low in 1997.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.232-248
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• 2004

In order to utilize fisheries resources under a joint management scheme with adjacent nations, as well as detecting of fishing grounds, the factors which influence yellow croaker (Pseudosciaena polyactis) in Korean waters were studied using historical catch per unit effort and oceanographic data. The main fishing ground near Cheju Island was located along the thermal front formed between the Yellow Sea Bottom Cold Water (YSBCW) and northward moving warm current. When the YSBCW (index temperature: $10^{\circ}C)$ strongly extended southward, the fishing condition were worse than average. Especially, low temperatures greatly influenced stow net fisheries, which were operated in the deep water layer The concentration and dispersal of fishing ground and catch coincided with oceanographic features and the seasonality of water masses.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.177-184
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• 1991

여름철 한국 남해 50m 이심층에 나타나는 각종 수괴들의 물리$\cdot$화학적 특성과 이들 수괴의 분포에 대해 연구하였다. 그 결과를 요약하면, 제주도를 중심으로 북서쪽해역 중$\cdot$저층에는 비교적 영양염이 풍부하고, 수온 $12^{\circ}C$ 이하의 총해저층냉수계의 해수가 넓게 분포하고 있다. 또한, 남동쪽 해역에서는 수온 $16^{\circ}C$ 이상이고, 염분 $34.0{\%_{\circ}$ 이상인 대마난류수가 50m 수층에서 제주도 연안 약 15km까지 나타난다. 그러나, 남서쪽 외해역에서는 $13^{\circ}C$ 이하의 황해저층냉수 기원의 해수가 분포하고 있으나, 북서쪽 해역에 비해 그 면적도 좁고, 질산염 농도도 현저히 낮다. 이처럼 질산염 농도가 낮은 이유는 남서쪽 외해역까지 남하한 황해저층냉수가 북상하는 대마난류수와 마주치면서 질산염이 거의 고갈된 표층의 해수와 수직혼합이 잘 이루어졌기 때문이라고 판단된다. 한편, 제주도 남쪽해역에서 수층별 수온의 수평분포로부터 황해저층냉수와 대마난류수의 주류는 각각 50m 수층과 그 상부수층으로 유입되는 반면, 수온이 $13-15^{\circ}C^로서 위 두 수괴의 혼합수인 황해난류수는 주로 75m 이심층에서 보다 넓게 분포하고, 제주도 연안해역에서는 50m 수층에도 황해난류수가 존재함을 알 수 있다. 즉, 이들 각 수괴의 분포는 해역별 또는 수심에 따라 다르며, 각 수괴의 영양염 농도는 수층별 해수 체류시간의 차이보다는 물리적 혼합의 세기에 의해 결정되는 것 같다. 그리고, $\Delta Si/\Delta P$비로 볼 때 남쪽해역 중$\cdot$저층에 존재하는 해수는 동해 표$\cdot$중층수 보다 훨씬 젊다고 생각된다.

• 한국해양학회지:바다
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.19-40
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• 2023

여름철 제주해협 물성 분포의 특성과 제주해협 수괴가 연안에 미치는 영향을 확인하기 위하여 2019년 6월, 7월, 8월에 완도와 제주도 사이에서 수온과 염분을 관측하였다. 여름철 계절 수온약층 아래에서 15℃의 저온수가 관측되었으며, 이 저온수는 관측시기에 따라 다르지만 수심이 깊은 제주해협 남쪽 골보다는 주로 제주해협 중앙의 중층과 북쪽 사면에 분포하였다. 이 저온수를 구성하는 근원 수괴를 알아보기 위하여 제주해협에서 관측된 해수를 구성하는 주변 근원 수괴들의 혼합비(mixing ratio)를 계산하였다. 여름철 제주해협 중앙 중층과 북쪽 사면에 나타나는 저온수는 평균적으로 쿠로시오 아표층수가 54% 그리고 황해저층냉수가 33% 비율로 혼합된 해수였다. 이 중층 저온수는 제주해협 전 수층에서 가장 낮은 수온을 갖는 해수임에도 상대적으로 고온고염인 쿠로시오아표층수가 큰 구성비율을 갖고 있다. 중층 저온수가 제주해협에서 가장 낮은 수온의 분포를 갖게 된 이유는 다른 제주해협 해수에 비해 황해저층냉수의 기여도가 높기 때문이다. 제주해협 중층 저온수의 기원을 살펴보기 위하여 황해, 동중국해, 대한해협에서 2019년 여름철에 관측한 광역 수온과 염분 자료를 분석하였다. 제주도 남서쪽 동중국해 계절 수온약층 아래에서 쿠로시오 기원의 해수와 황해저층냉수가 열염전선을 형성하였고, 이 열염전선을 가로지르는 수괴의 관입에 의해 해수의 혼합이 발생하였다. 동중국해에서 형성된 이 혼합수는 제주해협에서 관측된 중층 저온수와 거의 같은 혼합비율을 가졌다. 이런 결과들을 종합하였을 때 제주해협에서 여름철에 관측된 중층 저온수는 동중국해에서 쿠로시오 아표층수와 황해저층냉수의 혼합으로 만들어진 저온수가 해류를 따라 이동한 것이다. 제주해협 중앙과 북쪽 사면으로 이동한 중층 저온수는 제주해협 중앙의 중층에서 수온역전을 만들고, 한국 남해안 연안의 표층 수온 변동에도 큰 영향을 미친다.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제45권2호
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• pp.43-55
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• 2023

This study was conducted to understand the seasonal patterns and variation of the copepod community in the Anma Islands of Yeonggwang, Yellow Sea, with a focus on seasonal surveys to assess the factors affecting their occurrence. Throughout the survey period, Acartia hongi, Paracalanus parvus s. l., and Ditrichocorycaeus affinis were dominant species, while Acartia ohtsukai, Acartia pacifica, Bestiolina coreana, Centropages abdominalis, Labidocera rotunda, Paracalanus sp., Tortanus derjugini, Tortanus forcipatus occurred differently by season and station. As a results of cluster analysis, the copepod communities were distinguished into three distinct groups: spring-winter, summer, and autumn. The results of this study showed that the occurrence patterns of copepod species can vary depending on environmental conditions (topographic, distance from the inshore, etc.), and their spatial occurrence patterns between seasons were controlled by water temperature and prey conditions. One of the physical mechanisms that can affect the distribution of zooplankton in the Yellow Sea is the behavior of the Yellow Sea Bottom Cold Water (YSBCW), which shows remarkable seasonal fluctuations. More detailed further studies are needed for clear grounds for mainly why to many Calanus sinicus in the central region of the Yellow Sea are seasonally moving to the inshore, what strategies to seasonally maintain the population, and support the possibilities of complex factors.

• 한국해양환경ㆍ에너지학회지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.3-18
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• 2002

This study has been carried out to find the water Quality in coastal sea of fungmun area, southern Jeju Island. In-situ observations and water sampling had been made every month from July 1997 to June 2000. The distributions of water temperature and salinity over the study area have been 13.8~27.0℃ and 30.0~34.7‰, respectively. Salinity is showed low salinity from June to September (rainy season) because of rain. Tsushima Warm Waters (TWW) as ≥15℃ and ≥34‰ influence the adjacent sea around Jeju Island all year round. Yangtse Coastal Waters (YCW) influence the surface layer around Jeju from June to September and so strong stratification (termocline, halocline) resulted at the depth of between 20~30m at outer-sea. However the stratification does not happen even in summer at inner-sea, which seem to be caused due to vertical mixing by wind, waves and tides. A water mass of high value of water temperature and salinity (respectively 14.1~17.7℃, 33.9~34.1‰) stayed at the lower layer in outer-sea all the year round. It is probably formed by mixing between TWW and YSBCW(Yellow Sea Bottom Cold Water). The mean value of DO was the lowest in summer and the highest in winter. COD and TH were the highest in summer and the lowest in winter. However, TP showed the lowest value in summer season, because the mean value of N/P ratio was over 16. The mean of N/P ratio was under 16 in other seasons. The phosphate would be a limiting factor in the growth of phytoplanHon in summer. Nitrate would be a limiting factor in other seasons. Distribution of chlorophyll a did not show any seasonal change in the study period, but especially increased during April and May in the first year(1998) and the second year(1999) all over the study area, which suggested that phytoplankton inhabitation distributed widely in the study area. The space averaged values were the highest for TIN in rainy season and lower for TP in rainy season than in other seasons. It suggests that river runoff influences the inner-sea.

• 대기
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.247-260
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• 2010

A recent dramatic increase of natural hazards in the Korean peninsular (KP) due to typhoons have raised necessities for the accurate typhoon prediction. Ieodo ocean research station (IORS) has been constructed in June 2003 at the open ocean where typhoons pass frequently, aiming to observe typhoons before the landfall to the KP and hence to improve the prediction skill. This paper investigates the importance of measurements at the IORS in the typhoon research and forecast. Analysis of the best track data in the N. W. Pacific shows that about one typhoon passes over the IORS per year on the average and 54% of the KP-landfall typhoons during 59 years (1950-2008) passed by the IORS within the range of the 150-km radius. The data observed during the event of typhoons reveals that the IORS can provide useful information for the typhoon prediction prior to the landfall (mainland: before 8-10 hrs, Jeju Island: before 4-6 hrs), which may contribute to improving the typhoon prediction skill and conducting the disaster prevention during the landfall. Since 2003, nine typhoons have influenced the IORS by strong winds above 17m/s. Among them, the typhoon Maemi (0314) was the strongest and brought the largest damages in Korea. The various oceanic and atmospheric observation data at the IORS suggest that the Maemi (0314) has kept the strong intensity until the landfall as passing over warm ocean currents, while the Ewiniar (0603) has weakened rapidly as passing over the Yellow Sea Bottom Cold Water (YSBCW), mainly due to the storm's self-induced surface cooling. It is revealed that the IORS is located in the best place for monitering the patterns of the warm currents and the YSBCW which varies in time and space.