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Northern and southern latitudinal transects were conducted west of Tsugaru Strait to estimate the volume transport in this
area. It was found that the Tsushima Warm Current is the northward volume transport across the southern transect and the Northward
Current is the northward volume transport across the northern transect. The current in Tsugaru Strait,viz. the Tsugaru Warm Current, is the flow remaining when the Northward Current is subtracted from the Tsushima Warm Current.
Both CTD transects covered from near-shore to west of the subarctic front, and observed depths were from the surface to the
bottom or to 1000-1500 m depth. Our estimations indicate that large interannual variations of volume transport occur, relative
to the seasonal ones, with interannual variations sometimes exceeding seasonal variations in the Tsushima Warm Current and
the Northward Current. The Tsugaru Warm Current has near-steady transport. Fluctuations in the Tsushima Warm Current are thus
transmitted to the Northward Current. Further, our results revealed seasonal variations in the flow: the baloclinic structure
became deeper in April and the current axis tended to shift in a near-shore direction in October. Therefore, previous studies,
which had shallow reference levels and lacked nearshore stations, may have underestimated the transport and excessive seasonal
variations. 相似文献
2.
Osamu Katoh Kazuyuki Teshima Katsuhiko Kubota Kazuo Tsukiyama 《Journal of Oceanography》1996,52(1):93-108
In order to clarify detailed current structures west of Kyushu, ADCP measurements were carried out in July and September 1990 by the quadrireciprocal method (Katoh, 1988) for removing diurnal and semidiurnal tidal flows from observed flows. On the basis of these results, together with data of routine oceanographic observations, we study the downstream transition of the Tsushima Current west of Kyushu in summer. In the southwest of the Goto Islands, a northward current identified as the Tsushima Current was clearly found. In the south of Cheju, a westward current bifurcated from the Tsushima Current. In the northwest of the Goto Islands, the Tsushima Current narrowed and its velocity became strengthened. Salinity of the Tsushima Current water was much diluted by a current from the Cheju Strait. Near the west coast of the Goto Islands, a countercurrent bifurcating from the Tsushima Current often occurred. The volume transport of the Tsushima Current was 2.3 Sv (1 Sv=106 m3s–1) on the northern side of latitude 31°N. The substantial bifurcation of the Tsushima Current toward the Eastern and Western Channels of the Tsushima Strait occurred in the vicinity of Tsushima. The volume transport through the Western Channel was two to three times larger than that through the Eastern Channel. The baroclinic component in volume transport of the Tsushima Current west of Kyushu was much smaller than that in the Japan Sea. 相似文献
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Seasonal variation of the vertically averaged flow caused by the Jebar effect in the Tsushima Strait 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
The seasonal variation in the barotropic mode of motion caused by joint effect of the baroclinicity and bottom relief (Jebar effect) in the Tsushima Strait is investigated with the use of the diagnostic numerical model in this study. The Jebar effect in the Tsushima Strait is mainly caused by the intrusion of the Bottom Cold Water along the Korean coast in summer. This Jebar effect along the Korean coast locally supplies the negative vorticity in situ, and it forces the coastal current to be intensified. In summer, the volume transport of the Tsushima Warm Current entering the Tsushima Strait is biassed to the western part of the strait comparing with the flow pattern calculated in winter. 相似文献
4.
Osamu Katoh Kenji Morinaga Kuniaki Miyaji Kazuyuki Teshima 《Journal of Oceanography》1996,52(6):747-761
We discussed the branching and joining of the Tsushima Current around the Oki Islands, based on ADCP and CTD measurements carried out in June 1990 by the quadrireciprocal method (Katoh, 1988). The volume transport of the northeastward current northwest of the Izumo Coast was about 2 Sv. The triple-branch structure of the Tsushima Current was obscure there. This northeastward current divided into the eastward and northward currents, with volume transports of 0.5 Sv and 1.5 Sv, respectively, at the west entrance of the Oki Strait. Most of the first branch of the Tsushima Current seemed to be separated again from the other confluent branches and to pass through the Oki Strait as this eastward current. The northward current was composed of the second and the third branches of the Tsushima Current. It detoured the Oki Islands, and almost all of it returned south to the Tajima Coast. In the vicinity of the Tajima Coast, the eastward current was abruptly strengthened through the confluence of the southward one which was originated from the northward current west of the Oki Islands. This showed that the first branch finally joined the compound of the second and the third branches detouring the Oki Islands. Between the Oki Strait and the Tajima Coast, the two-layer structure of currents was clearly found. 相似文献
5.
Masaki Kawabe 《Journal of Oceanography》1982,38(2):95-107
Although the Tsushima Current exhibits a complicated meander in the interior region of the Japan Sea, its path is more regular in the southwest region near the Tsushima Strait, and three branches have often been recognized there by many investigators. However, the detailed structures and temporal variabilities of these branches have not been clarified, and so they are studied here by analysing temperature, salinity and sea level data. It is shown that the existence of the first branch (the nearshore branch along the Japanese coast) can be detected from salinity distributions at least during the period from March to August. The third branch (the Eastern Korean Current) exists in all seasons. On the other hand, the second branch (the offshore branch) is seasonally variable and can be identified only in summer from June to August. Along the Japanese coast of southwest Japan Sea, the main pycnocline intersects the gentle slope on the shelf at a depth between 150 and 200 m. The first branch is found on the coastal side of the line where the main pycnocline intersects the bottom slope. On the other hand, the second branch is formed just on the seaward side of this line. Sea level differences in the Tsushima Strait, i.e., between Hakata and Izuhara and between Izuhara and Pusan, show that the seasonal variation of the surface velocity (or volume transport) is small in the eastern channel and large in the western channel. The period during which the surface velocity and volume transport in the western channel increase corresponds well to the period during which the second branch exists. These results suggest that the effects of bottom topography and oceanic stratification in the Japan Sea as well as the time variation of inflow through the western channel of the Tsushima Strait play important roles in the formation of the second branch. 相似文献
6.
The connectivity between the interannual salinity variations in the Tsushima and Cheju Straits has been investigated on the
basis of historical hydrographic data. Salinity in the Cheju Strait correlates positively with that in the western channel
of the Tsushima Strait, but does not show a significant correlation with that in the eastern channel. Empirical orthogonal
function (EOF) and singular value decomposition (SVD) analyses of temperature and salinity in the Cheju Strait revealed that
salinity in the strait is associated with the cold bottom water in summer. Drastic freshening in the Cheju Strait occurs in
a period when the Cheju Current intensifies. The results allow us to hypothesize that the mechanism of interannual salinity
variations in the Cheju Strait and western channel of the Tsushima Strait is as follows. The intrusion of cold bottom water
into the Cheju Strait in summer intensifies the Cheju Current by increasing the baroclinicity. Since colder bottom water develops
a stronger eastward surface current, the larger volume of the Changjiang diluted water is drawn into the strait, which results
in a lower salinity condition in the Cheju Strait. As the water in the Cheju Strait flows into the western channel of the
Tsushima Strait, salinity in the western channel varies synchronously. This hypothesis is supported by SVD analysis of temperature
in the Cheju Strait and salinity in the Tsushima Strait. The salinity condition in the East China Sea is suggested to be another
important influence on salinity in the western channel of the Tsushima Strait. 相似文献
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Effect of Taiwan Strait Current on the onshore intrusion of Kuroshio: A geostrophic adjustment model
Young Ho Seung 《Ocean Science Journal》2012,47(1):41-50
The effect of the Taiwan Strait Current on the onshore intrusion of Kuroshio, both contributing to the formation of Tsushima
Warm Current, is addressed theoretically by invoking a geostrophic adjustment model previously proposed. The idealized model
assumes two unbounded basins, shallow and deep, separated by an infinitely long and thin barrier. On either side of the barrier,
a western boundary current in the deep basin and a shelf current in the shallow basin flow along the barrier with the surface
elevation of the former higher than that of the latter. When a part of the barrier is removed and a gap is created, the onshore
part of the western boundary current intrudes onto the shallow basin through the gap while conserving its potential vorticity.
Both the intruding current and the shelf current will later geostrophically adjust themselves to the disturbances created
by the intrusion. Model results show that the transport of onshore intrusion increases with the sea level difference imposed
initially between the deep and shallow basins across the barrier, indicating that the sea level rise associated with the strengthening
of shelf current inhibits the shelf-ward intrusion. The intruding current is in jet mode when its transport is maximized,
which otherwise is in coastal mode. The maximization of transport occurs when the sea level difference between the two basins
is sufficiently large. Although this model greatly idealizes the problem, it explains well the observed fact that the transport
of Tsushima Warm Current is fed mostly by the Taiwan Strait Current in summer when the latter becomes the strongest, and by
the onshore intrusion of Kuroshio in winter when the Taiwan Strait Current nearly vanishes, suggesting that the seasonal variation
of the onshore intrusion of Kuroshio is largely due to the seasonal variation in the strength of the Taiwan Strait Current. 相似文献
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Dong-Kyu Lee Peter Niiler 《Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers》2010,57(10):1222-1232
The mean circulation of the surface layer of the southwestern Japan/East Sea (JES) was examined using current measurements collected at 15 m by satellite-tracked drifters and merged sea level anomalies from satellite altimeters. The study of circulation patterns in this paper focused on the inflow passing through the western channel of the Korea Strait from the East China Sea. Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) analysis of non-seasonal sea level anomalies revealed that significant energy in the circulation pattern of Ulleung Basin was controlled by the inflow conditions through the Korea Strait. Three circulation patterns were identified that depended on the initial relative vorticity of the inflow. When inflow had initially large negative vorticity, the flow gained more negative vorticity due to deepening of the bottom (stretching) and then turned right after entering the JES. The inflow then followed the path of the Tsushima Warm Current along the coast of Japan. When the inflow was strong, with a speed in excess of 55 cm/s and with a large positive vorticity, potential vorticity appeared to be conserved. In this case, the EKWC followed isobaths along the coast and then left the coast, following topographic features north of Ulleung-Do. The northward flowing jet developed inertial meandering after leaving the coast, which is a characteristic of many western boundary currents. The regular, bimonthly deployments of drifters in the western portion of the Korea Strait revealed that splitting or branching of the flow through the western channel of the Korea Strait occurred only 15% of the time. And splitting or branching rarely occurred during the fall and winter seasons, when the inflow splitting was previously reported in hydrographic surveys. The time-averaged circulation map of the EKWC and its seaward extension were considerably enhanced by using regularly sampled geostrophic velocities calculated from sea level anomalies to remove biases in the mean velocity that were caused by irregular spatial and temporal drifter observations. The East Korean Warm Current, a mean coastal current along the Korean coast, behaved like the simple model by Arruda et al. (2004) in which the generation of the Ulleung Warm Eddy and the meandering circulation pattern were well reproduced. 相似文献
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Yoshihiko Sekine 《Progress in Oceanography》1986,17(3-4)
Seasonal variation in the wind-driven circulation in the Japan Sea is studied with reference to the branching of the Tsushima Current using a two-layer model with simplified bottom and coastal topography. The system is driven by wind stress, an inflow corresponding to the Tsushima Current and by the two outflows corresponding to the Tsugaru and Soya Currents.In the first phase, an annual mean wind stress is imposed and a quasi-stationary state is obtained. In the next phase, a seasonally varying wind stress is imposed. Seasonal variation in the wind stress plays an important role in the branching system of the Tsushima Current. In winter, an intensified western boundary current with a prominent inner circulation is formed as a result of a strong wind stress of winter monsoon with negative wind stress curl. In spring to summer, the western boundary current is weak, but the topographic branch along the Japanese coast is intensified. The weak western boundary current is caused by weak wind stress with positive wind stress curl, which induces cyclonic Sverdrup flow in the Japan Sea and causes its western boundary current to flow in the opposite direction to the prescribed northward boundary inflow current. The topographic branch is strongest in late spring and moves offshore in summer, in agreement with the central branch denoted by Kawabe (1982b). Some of the observational features of the Tsushima Current are successfully simulated. 相似文献
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Osamu Katoh 《Journal of Oceanography》1993,49(1):17-30
We discussed the detailed current structures in the Eastern Channel of the Tsushima Strait, using four sets of acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) data, which were taken by the quadrireciprocal method (Katoh, 1988), for removing tidal currents, in summers of 1987–1989. In the Eastern Channel, diurnally averaged currents balanced almost geostrophically. In the upper layer of the deepest part of the Eastern Channel, there existed a current core which corresponded to one branch of the Tsushima Current. The current direction in this core was between NE and ENE in all observations but the magnitude of velocity in 1987 differed largely from that in 1988. Another current core with lower velocities was found near the north coast of Kyushu. Near the bottom at the deepest part of the Eastern Channel, the velocity was more or less 0.3 kt (15 cm s–1). Along the east coast of Tsushima and in waters northeast of it, countercurrents were observed. The continuity of these countercurrents was interpreted as follows: A part of the current flowing from the Western Channel of the Tsushima Strait into the Japan Sea turns clockwise in waters northeast of Tsushima, and flows southwestward along the east coast of Tsushima. The southwestward current along Tsushima was correlated with the northeastward current in the central part of the Eastern Channel. The transport through the Eastern Channel was between 0.59 and 1.30 Sv (1 Sv=106 m3s–1). The baroclinic component, which was defined as the transport based on calculations of geostrophic current with assuming zero velocity near the bottom, was very small. 相似文献
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本文全面地分析了此段海流的流路与流速结构，首次提出研究海域近底层的环流示意图。指出在夏季，韩国南岸和日本九州北岸均存在着一支南下的逆流，九州西岸出现两种或多种形式的流路。对马暖流在源地流速很弱，流向不稳定，流路时隐时显不明显，只有离开源地后才逐渐显示出一支海流轮廓；强流区在朝鲜海峡附近。该海流可明显地划分为三段。流速夏强冬弱，夏季流幅宽约８０ｋｍ。 相似文献
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Osamu Katoh Kazuyuki Teshima Osamu Abe Hitoshi Fujita Kuniaki Miyaji Kenji Morinaga Norihisa Nakagawa 《Journal of Oceanography》1996,52(4):491-507
In order to clarify detailed current structures over the continental shelf margin in the East China Sea, ADCP measurements were carried out in summers in 1991 and 1994 by the quadrireciprocal method (Katoh, 1988) for removing diurnal and semidiurnal tidal flows from observed flows, together with CTD measurements. We discussed the process of the Tsushima Current formation in the East China Sea. The Tsushima Current with a volume transport of 2 Sv (1 Sv=106 m3s–1) was found north of 31°N. A current with a volume transport of 0.4 Sv was clearly found along the 100 m isobath. Between the Kuroshio and the current along the 100 m isobath, southeastward component of velocity was dominant compared to northwestward one. Four eastward to southeastward currents were found over the sea bed shallower than 90 m depth. Total volume transport of these four currents was 1 Sv, and they seemed to be originated from the Taiwan Strait. Intrusion of offshore water into the inner shelf northwest of Amami Oshima was estimated to have a volume transport of 0.6 Sv. It is concluded that the Tsushima Current is the confluence of these currents over the continental shelf margin with the offshore water intruding northwest of Amami Oshima. 相似文献
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The cold-water belt (CWB) is frequently formed off the Soya Warm Current (SWC) during summer and autumn. The detailed distribution
of the flow and temperature fields observed by the R/V Sinyo-maru in the summer of 2001 captured the structures of the SWC
and the CWB. The temperature and density distributions showed that the vertical distribution of the CWB is associated with
the upwelling formed off the SWC. Numerical experiments using a two-layer model with realistic bottom topography have been
performed to understand the formation mechanism of CWB and the upwelling structure off the current. In the experiment, the
sea level difference between the Japan Sea and the Okhotsk Sea, and baroclinic flow assuming the Tsushima Warm Current were
given along the open boundary. The numerical model well reproduces the current system of the SWC and upwelling region off
it. The upwelling region is formed at the Soya Strait first, and then it spreads on the offshore side along the SWC as a developing
current system. Analysis of the model data indicated that the geostrophic balance mainly dominates in the current system,
while convergence of the bottom Ekman transport due to the SWC forms the upwelling region as the secondary circulation. In
addition, the advection effect due to the SWC is found to strengthen the upwelling. 相似文献
15.
By using Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) measurements with the four round-trips method to remove diurnal/semidiurnal
tidal currents, the detailed current structure and volume transport of the Tsushima Warm Current (TWC) along the northwestern
Japanese coast in the northeastern Japan Sea were examined in the period September–October 2000. The volume transport of the
First Branch of the TWC (FBTWC) east of the Noto Peninsula was estimated as approximately 1.0 Sv (106 m3/s), and the FBTWC continued to flow along the Honshu Island to the south of the Oga Peninsula. To the north of the Oga Peninsula,
the Second Branch of Tsushima Warm Current and the eastward current established by the subarctic front were recombined with
the FBTWC and the total volume transport increased to 1.9 Sv. The water properties at each ADCP line strongly suggested that
most of the upper portion of the TWC with high temperature and low salinity flowed out to the North Pacific as the Tsugaru
Warm Current. In the north of the Tsugaru Strait, the volume transport of the northward current was observed to be as almost
1 Sv. However, the component of the TWC water was small (approximately 0.3 Sv). 相似文献
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Variability of Sea Surface Circulation in the Japan Sea 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
Composite sea surface dynamic heights (CSSDH) are calculated from both sea surface dynamic heights that are derived from altimetric data of ERS-2 and mean sea surface that is calculated by a numerical model. The CSSDH are consistent with sea surface temperature obtained by satellite and observed water temperature. Assuming the geostrophic balance, sea surface current velocities are calculated. It is found that temporal and spatial variations of sea surface circulation are considerably strong. In order to examine the characteristics of temporal and spatial variation of current pattern, EOF analysis is carried out with use of the CSSDH for 3.5 years. The spatial and temporal variations of mode 1 indicate the strength or weakness of sea surface circulation over the entire Japan Sea associated with seasonal variation of volume transport through the Tsushima Strait. The spatial and temporal variations of mode 2 mostly indicate the temporal variation of the second branch of the Tsushima Warm Current and the East Korean Warm Current. It is suggested that this variation is possibly associated with the seasonal variation of volume transport through the west channel of the Tsushima Strait. Variations of mode 3 indicate the interannual variability in the Yamato Basin. 相似文献
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Seasonal variation of horizontal material transport through the eastern channel of the Tsushima Straits 总被引：2，自引：2，他引：0
Akihiko Morimoto Tetsutaro Takikawa Goh Onitsuka Atsushi Watanabe Masatoshi Moku Tetsuo Yanagi 《Journal of Oceanography》2009,65(1):61-71
We conducted hydrographic observations ten times in the Tsushima Strait to reveal seasonal variations of horizontal material
transports such as of heat, freshwater, chlorophyll a, and dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) and phosphorus (DIP) through the eastern channel of the Tsushima Strait (ECTS). The
volume, freshwater, and heat transport results are of nearly the same order as results reported in previous studies. The annual
mean DIN and DIP transports of 3.59 kmol/s and 0.29 kmol/s are large relative to those of the Changjiang and the Taiwan Strait
and are horizontally transported through the ECTS. Nutrient transports are high in July–August and October and low in April
and November. Increased nutrient transports in July–August and October are due to the appearance of a cold saline water mass
in the bottom layer of the ECTS. Changes in DIN transports in summer and autumn, which account for two-thirds of the total
annual DIN transport, would have a large effect on the nitrogen budget and biological productivity in the Tsushima Warm Current
region. 相似文献
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The northward intruding eddy along the East coast of Korea 总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5
The current structures and their seasonal variations in the East Korean Warm Current (EKWC) region, which plays a significant role in the northward transport of warm and saline waters, were described by combining the sea surface temperature (SST) data of consecutive satellite inferred (IR) images and hydrographic data. The SST patterns in winter-spring clearly showed that the small meander of thermal front originating from the Tsushima/Korea Strait formed close to the Korean coast and grew an isolated warm eddy with horizontal dimension of order 100 km. Such warm eddy began to intrude slowly northward from spring to summer. At that time, interactions with neighboring synoptic warm eddy [Ks] around the Ulleung Basin were found to have strongly influence the movement of the intruding eddy and its structural change. In autumn, after the northward movement stopped at the north of eddy [Ks], the relative stable northward current along the Korean coast were formed. The evidence from observational results does not support a persistent branching of the EKWC from the Tsushima/Korea Strait, but a seasonal episodic supply of warm and saline waters due to the northward intruding eddy process described above. 相似文献
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In order to clarify the formation and circulation of the Japan/East Sea Intermediate Water (JESIW) and the Upper portion of
the Japan Sea Proper Water (UJSPW), numerical experiments have been carried out using a 3-D ocean circulation model. The UJSPW
is formed in the region southeast off Vladivostok between 41°N and 42°N west of 136°E. Taking the coastal orography near Vladivostok
into account, the formation of the UJSPW results from the deep water convection in winter which is generated by the orchestration
of fresh water supplied from the Amur River and saline water from the Tsushima Warm Current under very cold conditions. The
UJSPW formed is advected by the current at depth near the bottom of the convection and penetrates into the layer below the
JESIW. The origin of the JESIW is the low salinity coastal water along the Russian coast originated by the fresh water from
the Amur River. The coastal low salinity water is advected by the current system in the northwestern Japan Sea and penetrates
into the subsurface below the Tsushima Warm Current region forming a subsurface salinity minimum layer.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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K.-I. Chang W.J. Teague S.J. Lyu H.T. Perkins D.-K. Lee D.R. Watts Y.-B. Kim D.A. Mitchell C.M. Lee K. Kim 《Progress in Oceanography》2004,61(2-4):105
A review is made of circulation and currents in the southwestern East/Japan Sea (the Ulleung Basin), and the Korea/Tsushima Strait which is a unique conduit for surface inflow into the Ulleung Basin. The review particularly concentrates on describing some preliminary results from recent extensive measurements made after 1996. Mean flow patterns are different in the upstream and downstream regions of the Korea/Tsushima Strait. A high velocity core occurs in the mid-section in the upstream region, and splits into two cores hugging the coasts of Korea and Japan, the downstream region, after passing around Tsushima Island located in the middle of the strait. Four-year mean transport into the East/Japan Sea through the Korea/Tsushima Strait based on submarine cable data calibrated by direct observations is 2.4 Sv (1 Sv = 106 m3 s−1). A wide range of variability occurs for the subtidal transport variation from subinertial (2–10 days) to interannual scales. While the subinertial variability is shown to arise from the atmospheric pressure disturbances, the longer period variation has been poorly understood.Mean upper circulation of the Ulleung Basin is characterized by the northward flowing East Korean Warm Current along the east coast of Korea and its meander eastward after the separation from the coast, the Offshore Branch along the coast of Japan, and the anticyclonic Ulleung Warm Eddy that forms from a meander of the East Korean Warm Current. Continuous acoustic travel-time measurements between June 1999 and June 2001 suggest five quasi-stable upper circulation patterns that persist for about 3–5 months with transitions between successive patterns occurring in a few months or days. Disappearance of the East Korean Warm Current is triggered by merging the Dok Cold Eddy, originating from the pinching-off of the meander trough, with the coastal cold water carried Southward by the North Korean Cold Current. The Ulleung Warm Eddy persisted for about 20 months in the middle of the Ulleung Basin with changes in its position and spatial scale associated with strengthening and weakening of the transport through the Korea/Tsushima Strait. The variability of upper circulation is partly related to the transport variation through the Korea/Tsushima Strait. Movements of the coastal cold water and the instability of the polar front also appear to be important factors affecting the variability.Deep circulation in the Ulleung Basin is primarily cyclonic and commonly consists of one or more cyclonic cells, and an anticyclonic cell centered near Ulleung Island. The cyclonic circulation is conjectured to be driven by a net inflow through the Ulleung Interplain Gap, which serves as a conduit for the exchange of deep waters between the Japan Basin in the northern East Sea and the Ulleung Basin. Deep currents are characterized by a short correlation scale and the predominance of mesoscale variability with periods of 20–40 days. Seasonality of deep currents is indistinct, and the coupling of upper and deep circulation has not been clarified yet. 相似文献