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Diurnal Fluctuations of Saprophytic Bacterial distribution and Their Extracellular Enzyme Activities in the Overlying Waters of Sediment of the Yellow Sea near Daesan, Korea (대산인근 해역에서 간만조에 따른 종속영양세균의 일일 분포와 세포외 효소 활성력의 변화)

  • Lee, Geon-Hyoung;Gang-Guk Choi;Chun-Bong Baek
    • The Korean Journal of Ecology
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.409-418
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    • 1995
  • As a part of studying the function and structure of the mudflat environment of the Yellow Sea, seawater samples in the overlying waters of sediment near Daesan were collected every hour on March 29 (spring tides) and on April 5 (neap tides), 1995 to study the diurnal distribution of aerobic saprophytic bacteria and their extracellular enzyme activities. The diurnal distribution of aerobic saprophytic bacteria ranged from 1.0 X $10^{2}$ to 7.07 X $10^{3}$ cfu /ml at spring tides and from 1.0 X $10^{2}$ to 8.3 X $10^{3}$ cfu /ml at neap tides. The diurnal variations of aerobic saprophytes at the suface waters were greater than those of middle and bottom waters. However, th diurnal fluctuation of saprophyte numbers at spring tides showed no significant difference compared with that at neap tides. The numbers of three physiological groups of aerobic hacteria (proteolytic, lipolytic and amylolytic bacteria) at the surface waters during spring and neap tides were lower than those at the middles and bottom waters. The diurnal variations of five extracellular enzyme activities at the surface waters during the survey period showed lower values than those at the middle and botton waters. Among the measured extracellular enzyme activities, phosphatase showed the highest. However, the activities of amylase, chitinase and cellulase showed a similar tendency.

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On the Tides, Tidal Currents and Tidal Prisms at Inchon Harbor (인천항의 조석, 조류 및 조량에 대하여)

  • Yi, Sok-U
    • 한국해양학회지
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.86-97
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    • 1972
  • The tides, tidal currents and tidal prisms at Inchon Harbor are studied with recent data. The tides at Inchon Harbor is of semi-diurnal type having a spring range of 798cm and a phase age of 2 days. The monthly mean sea level at Inchon has a maximum at August and a minimum at January with a annual range of about 40cm. the tidal currents at Inchon Outer Harbor are of semi-diurnal type same as tides and nearly reversing type. The flood and ebb currents set north and south with a velocity of about 90-175 cm/sec and 120-225 cm/sec at spring tide and begin 0.2 hours after L.W. and 0.7 hours after H. W., respectively. Non-tidal currents flow southward with 10-20 cm/sec at west side of the stream and northward with 15-20 cm/sec at east side of the stream at Inchon Outer Harbor. The flood volume through the Inchon Outer Harbor fluctuates fortnightly from 590 10$\^$6/㎥ spring tide to 260 $10^6/m^3$ at neap tide and ebb volume changes from 470 $10^6/m^3$ at spring tide to 200 $10^6/m^3$ at neap tide, respectively. The flow area along the channel to the Estuary of Yeomha is controlled by the tidal prism as expressed by $A=1.14{\times}10^{-4}P^{0.966}$

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Oceanographic Environment Characteristics in Waters Adjacent to Fish Farm on Land (육상 양식장 인접해역의 해양학적 환경특성)

  • 조규대;이충일;김동선;양윤정
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.297-308
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    • 2002
  • Field observations for research of oceanographic characteristics in waters adjacent to fish farm on land and water quality at area where water is supplied to fish farm and area where water is discharged from fish farm are carried out in coastal waters of Pyoson located in the southeastern region of Jeju Island in March, May, August and November of 2000. Semidiurnal tides to the northeast and southwest dominate. The mean velocities of current around neap tides and spring tides are 8.52cmㆍs$^{-1}$, 28.63cmㆍs$^{-1}$, respectively. The difference of temperature between area where water is supplied to fish farm and area where water is discharged from fish farm is about 0.6$^{\circ}C$. Seasonal variation range for temperature and salinity is 13.5$^{\circ}C$ and 3.5psu, individually. Concentrations of nitrate(NO$_3$$^{-}$), phosphate(PO$_4$$^{3-}$ ), silicate(SiO$_2$) and COD(chemical oxygen demand) are high in autumn. Particularly, concentrations of nitrate and COD in winter and spring at station where water is supplied to fish farm are higher than these at station where water is dischared from fish farm. However, concentration of phosphate and silicate at station where is supplied to fish farm in spring, summer and autumn is higher than that at station where water is dischared from fish farm. Water quality in the study area is grade 1 and this level is kept up in the whole year.

Intraspecific Zonation of the Benthic Amphipod Pontogeneia rostrata in Relation to Diel and Tidal Cycles (저서성 단각류 Pontogeneia rostrata의 종내 대상분포와 주야-조석주기)

  • YU Ok Hwan;SUH Hae-Lip;SOH Ho Youn
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.500-507
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    • 1998
  • Using a sledge net, the benthic amphipods were taken over one cycle of the neap and spring tides in January 1993 at the sandy shore surf zone of Dolsando, southern Korea. From these samples, we investigated the diel and tidal effects on the intraspecific zonation of Pontogeneia rostrata. The density of p. rostrata was higher during neap tide than spring. Of three categories (adult males and females and juveniles), juveniles and males attained to its highest density during neap and spring tides, respectively. Length- frequency data show that the high mortality of juveniles seemed to occur in winter. In the surface at night, it is significant that juveniles were significantly more abundant during neap tide than spring, whereas both adult males and females were more abundant during spring tide than neap. This suggests that the vortical migration patterns of juveniles and adults vary with the type of tides. During flood of spring tide, more than $90\%$ of population collected at the area above the mean sea level (MSL) were adults. With a decrease of female/male ratio, size of males increased there but that of female did not change, indicating an active migration of large males. This behavior can provide an extension of distribution area far large males, and also give a competitive advantage to large male against small one for mate and feeding. Although adult p. rostrata was collected at 100 cm above MSL at night during spring tide, a major portion of population as usually present on the shore below MSL. The center of zonation was restricted from 50 cm to 250 cm below MSL.

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Application of A Depth-Averaged Two-Dimensional Mathematical Model to Tidal Computations in the Estuary near Gunsan Port (수심평균 2차원 수학적 모형(TIFS)을 이용한 금강하구 및 연해의 조석계산)

  • 박창언;박승우
    • Magazine of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.60-67
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    • 1986
  • A depth-averaged two dimensional model TIFS was developed from simplified basic flow equations. The model was applied to tidal computations for the Biin Bay area near the Gunsan port. Vertical tides and tidal velocities for the tested was simulated for neap and spring tides. The simulation results were in good agreement with the obserbed data. This paper also attempts to evaluate model sensitivity from different initial conditions, roughness coefficient, time increments, and water depths. Among the selected input parameters, water depth and roughness coefficient were found to significantly affect vertical and horizontal tides.

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Tidal Currents In The Channel Near Incheon Harbour (인천항부근 수로의 조류)

  • Bong, Jong Hon
    • 한국해양학회지
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.29-34
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    • 1978
  • Simultaneous tidal current observation at five or seven stations on the channel near Incheon Habour was conducted at neap, mean and spring tides during the period of August 16 to August 27, 1976 and the characteristic of tidal currents with each tide was studied by the analysis of these data. Times of slack refer to the times of high and low waters at neap, mean and spring tides seem to be small. Times of maximum current refer to the times of high and low waters at the mean tide tends to appear earlier than that of the neap tide and later than that of the spring tide. The velocity ratio of maximum ebb current to maximum flood current at the mean tide has larger value than that of neap tide and has smaller value than that of spring tide. The current velocity ratio of spring tide to neap tide and to mean tide are approximately 1.8 and 1.3, respectively.

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Silty Tidal Rhythmites from the Upper Pleistocene Sedimentary Sequence, Western Coast of Korea

  • Park, Yong-Ahn;Choi, Kyung-Sik
    • Journal of the korean society of oceanography
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    • v.33 no.3
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    • pp.71-79
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    • 1998
  • Silty tidal rhythmites were found from the upper Pleistocene sequence unconformably overlain by the Holocene tidal deposits within the macrotidal coastal zone of Youngjong Island, western coast of Korea. The rhythmites occur as vertically accreted, parallel and planar laminae that are 0.1-2.5 mm in thickness. Each lamina grades from coarse silt (mean grain size: 5-6.5 ${\phi}$) at the lower part into fine silt to mud (mean grain size: 6-7.5 ${\phi}$) at the upper part. The rhythmites can be classified into two types based on the patterns in laminar thickness variation. Type I is a bundle of 12-20 laminae in which laminar thickness varies sinusoidally. Type ll is an alternation of thick and thin laminae as a couplet. Type I is inferred as a product of varying tidal energy during a semimonthly (neap-spring) tidal cycle, in which thicker laminae were deposited during spring tides and thinner laminae were formed during neap tides. Type ll is interpreted to have been formed by asymmetric semidiurnal tidal currents in association with diurnal inequality, whereby thick lamina of each couplet represents dominant tidal current and the thin lamina reflects subordinate tidal current.

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The Impact of the Developments and Dwellers on the Beach and Sanddune Characteristics in the Chungcheong-Namdo Province (지역개발과 주민생활이 환경에 미치는 영향 -충청남도의 비치와 해안사구를 사례로-)

  • Kahng, Tay-Gyoon
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.291-302
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    • 2003
  • This paper examined the impacts of the regional developments and dwellers behavior on the Seacoast. Seacoast features a variety of landforms which are created by the action of waves and tidal flows. The coastal landforms are found mainly in the interface between land and sea. Although erosional landforms constitute prominent landscape features as sea stack, sea arch, and rock cliff do, it is nonetheless the depositional features such as beaches, tidal flats, offshore bars, deltas, sanddunes, and coastal plains that have various ramifications for human communities. Among these, beaches and coastal sanddunes are special in that their formation is attributable to the combined action of waves, tidal flows, and winds. The main line of discussion in this dissertation is concerned with the transformation of group of beaches sanddunes along the coastline of Chungcheong-Namdo Province. To some extent, the erosion of coastal dunes has been a global phenomenon. The degradation process occurs most actively when the spring tides attack beaches, berms, and foredunes. Also involved in the transformation of coastal dunes are factors of human agency. The extent, speed, and pattern of their morphological changes are a function of land-use pattern. The reclamation of swale and the exploitation of sands as construction material and silica sand, for example, ruin the feature of coastal dunes.

Effects of environmental factors on the outbreak of freshwater red tide by peridinium bipes in Soyang reservoir (소양호에서 peridinium bipes에 의한 담수적조 발생에 미치는 환경요인의 영향)

  • 강찬수;김상종
    • Korean Journal of Microbiology
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    • v.29 no.6
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    • pp.361-370
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    • 1991
  • Physical and chemical environmental factors influencing on the outbreak of freshwater red tide by Peridinium bipes (dinoflagellate) in Soyang Reservoir were studied. Red tide occured in the site of inflowing of tributary streams annually, but the extent and severity of red tide varied from year to year. Several environmental factors such as water level, nutrient releasing from sediment, cyst resuspension, and concentrations of $Ca^{2+}$ and $Mg^{2+}$were studiedin relation to development, extent, and duration of red tide. In June of 1989 and 1991, the red tides of Peridinium bipes were very severe, and these red tides coincided with notable and rapid drawdown of lake water in late spring. Nutrient releasing and cyst resuspension by turbulence during drawdown were suggested as main causes of red tide. The quanity of nutrient releasing from sediment and hydrometeorological factors such as run-off and wind may determine the extent and duration of red tide.

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Short-term Variation in Species Composition of Surf-zone Fishes at Daechon Beach, the Yellow Sea of Korea (대천 해빈 쇄파대어류 종조성의 단기 변화)

  • Lee, Tae-Won
    • Korean Journal of Ichthyology
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.32-39
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    • 2001
  • Surf-zone fishes in Daechon Beach, situated at the mouth of Cheonsu Bay, Korea, were collected by a beach seine during the spring and neap tides in August 1999. Short-term variation in species composition was analyzed based on tidal range, tidal level, and time of day. Of 24 species identified, juvenile pelagic fishes predominated in the number of individuals captured. Wilcoxon signed-rank test revealed that the number of individuals was significantly higher during the spring tide than during the neap tide. During the spring tide the fishes were more abundant at the low level than at the high level, while during the neap tide there was no significant difference. The mean density of pelagic fishes did not show significant differences between high and low tides. Demersal fishes were caught mainly in the water below the low level of the neap tide.

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