Observation of the Soya Warm Current using HF ocean radar     

Naoto Ebuchi  Yasushi Fukamachi  Kay I. Ohshima  Kunio Shirasawa  Masao Ishikawa  Toru Takatsuka  Takaharu Daibo  Masaaki Wakatsuchi 《Journal of Oceanography》2006,62(1):47-61

Three High Frequency (HF) ocean radar stations were installed around the Soya/La Perouse Strait in the Sea of Okhotsk in order to monitor the Soya Warm Current (SWC). The frequency of the HF radar is 13.9 MHz, and the range and azimuth resolutions are 3 km and 5 deg., respectively. The radar covers a range of approximately 70 km from the coast. The surface current velocity observed by the HF radars was compared with data from drifting buoys and shipboard Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCPs). The current velocity derived from the HF radars shows good agreement with that observed using the drifting buoys. The root-mean-square (rms) differences were found to be less than 20 cm s⁻¹ for the zonal and meridional components in the buoy comparison. The observed current velocity was also found to exhibit reasonable agreement with the shipboard ADCP data. It was shown that the HF radars clearly capture seasonal and short-term variations of the SWC. The velocity of the Soya Warm Current reaches its maximum, approximately 1 m s⁻¹, in summer and weakens in winter. The velocity core is located 20 to 30 km from the coast, and its width is approximately 40 km. The surface transport by the SWC shows a significant correlation with the sea level difference along the strait, as derived from coastal tide gauge records at Wakkanai and Abashiri. Deceased.  相似文献   

长江口邻近海域夏、冬季水文特征分析     

唐晓晖  王凡 《海洋科学集刊》2004,46(46):42-66

长江冲淡水和台湾流是我国陆架海上两个重要的海洋现象。二者在长江口邻近海域交汇并相互制约，其分布和变化控制着该地区的温盐、环流结构，也影响着长江径流所携带的泥沙、营养盐等物质向外海的扩散和输运，以及舟山渔场的形成和变化。 长江每年以巨量径流注入东海，在长江口外形成一股很强的冲淡水，以低盐、高营养盐、高悬浮体含量为特征。毛汉礼等(1963)首先对长江冲淡水的扩散与混合特征作了系统的描述，并指出，冬季长江冲淡水沿岸南下，其范围仅限于贴岸的一狭带内；夏则在径流入海后不久转向东北，直指济州岛方向，到达对马海峡。众多学者通过资料分析、理论研究和数值模拟等探讨了长江冲淡水转向的原因，认为主要影响因素有长江径流量、地形效应、海面风应力、斜压效应、台湾曖流的顶托，以及黄海冷水团的诱导作用等(乐肯堂，1984；崔茂常，1984；顾玉荷，1985；王从敏，1986；赵保仁，1991；朱建荣，1998)，但至今对其转向机制的认识尚不一致。 台湾暖流水起源于台湾海峡和黑潮，是具有高盐、低悬浮体含量特征的大洋水体。翁学传等(1983，1984)研究认为，具有高温和次高盐特征的台湾暖流表层水同时起源于台湾海峡水和黑潮表层水，而具有高盐特征的深层水只来源于由台湾东北部入侵陆架的黑潮次表层水；翁学传(1983)还根据历史资料分析指出，夏季台湾暖流表层水的前锋大体沿着123°E可以伸展到31°N，深层水进一步延伸至31°N以北；且深层水在28°N和30°N断面并不终年存在，仅存于夏半年。王凡等(2001)的分析结果则显示，台湾暖流表层水和深层水在夏季可以在次表层北侵至30°N以北海域，而以深层水特点为主的台湾暖流水在冬季和晚秋甚至可在整个深度上伸展至30°N以北。总之，对台湾暖流水在不同季节、不同层次的北侵程度方面还存在着不同看法。 为深入研究长江口邻近海域的物质通量、扩散、传输和输运规律，中国科学院知识创新工程重要方向项目“中国主要河口及邻近陆架海域陆海相互作用”于2001年7-8月和2002年1月在长江口外28°~32°N、124°E以西海域组织了两次多学科综合考察。作者首先根据这两次考察获得的温盐深观测仪(CTD)观测到的温盐资料和声学多普勒流速剖面仪(ADP、ADCP)流速资料,分析该年夏、冬季长江口邻近海域的水文特征。考虑到调查海域有较强的年际变动，从年际变化的角度来更深刻地认识夏、冬季长江口邻近海域的水文特征，以及长江冲淡水与台湾暖流水的关系是很有必要的。为此，作者收集了1987~2001年其他项目3个夏季航次和2个冬季航次的温盐资料，以及1958~1982年标准断面历史资料，与最近2次观测资料相结合，综合分析研究了长江口邻近海域夏、冬季水文特征和变化情况，为今后更进一步开展此项研究提供了科学依据。  相似文献   

闽台水产加工业的发展现状与合作前景     

吴成业 《台湾海峡》2001,20(4):556-564

本文分析了闽台水产加工业的发展现状、面临的主要问题以及加入世贸组织后对产业的影响，预测未来两岸水产加工业的发展前景。认为如两地能采取优势互补、合作开发、谋求共同发展，将有利于推动闽台两地水产加工业，乃至渔业生产的持续、健康、稳定地发展。  相似文献   

Probability distribution of random wave–current forces     

Jin-Bao Song   《Ocean Engineering》2006,33(17-18):2435-2453

Based on the second-order solutions obtained for the three-dimensional weakly nonlinear random waves propagating over a steady uniform current in finite water depth, the joint statistical distribution of the velocity and acceleration of the fluid particle in the current direction is derived using the characteristic function expansion method. From the joint distribution and the Morison equation, the theoretical distributions of drag forces, inertia forces and total random forces caused by waves propagating over a steady uniform current are determined. The distribution of inertia forces is Gaussian as that derived using the linear wave model, whereas the distributions of drag forces and total random forces deviate slightly from those derived utilizing the linear wave model. The distributions presented can be determined by the wave number spectrum of ocean waves, current speed and the second order wave–wave and wave–current interactions. As an illustrative example, for fully developed deep ocean waves, the parameters appeared in the distributions near still water level are calculated for various wind speeds and current speeds by using Donelan–Pierson–Banner spectrum and the effects of the current and the nonlinearity of ocean waves on the distribution are studied.  相似文献   

Branching of the Tsushima Current by an Abrupt Increase of Bottom Depth     

Young Ho Seung 《Journal of Oceanography》2005,61(2):261-269

An analytical model of the branching of an inertial current partly afloat incident upon a step fall in bottom topography is considered to account for the branching of the Tsushima Current induced by an abrupt increase of the bottom depth near the northern end of the Korea-Tsushima Strait. The grounded portion of the incident current is constraint by bottom topography and eventually runs along the depth discontinuity over the shallow region. Due to the inertia of the incident current, however, the ungrounded portion crosses the depth discontinuity and forms a free inertial jet, giving rise to the branching. The deflection angle of this free inertial jet is determined through an integrated momentum balance. The branching is more restricted as the grounded portion of the incident current becomes relatively more important, in terms of the momentum transport, than the ungrounded portion. For typical values of the bottom depth, the transport of the Tsushima Current through the Korea-Tsushima Strait, and for acceptable values of other physical parameters, it appears that branching is possible. Hence, the abrupt increase of the bottom depth near the northern end of the Korea-Tsushima Strait, combined with the inertia of current, may indeed be an important factor in the branching of the Tsushima Current.  相似文献   

大亚湾大鹏澳海流流速概率分布     

郑淑卿  李立 《台湾海峡》1993,12(3):242-247

本文利用大亚湾大鹏(?)1989年7～8月海流连续观测资料,用黄金分割法逐步逼近威布尔分布参数的改进适线法,拟合出该湾流速三参数威布尔分布函数。流速良好地服从三参数威布尔分布,文中还探讨了资料的代表性对所求分布函数的影响。  相似文献   

Sedimentary records of multidecadal-scale variability of diatom productivity in the Bungo Channel, Japan, associated with the Pacific Decadal Oscillation     

Michinobu Kuwae  Azumi Yamashita  Yuichi Hayami  Atsushi Kaneda  Takashige Sugimoto  Yoshio Inouchi  Atsuko Amano  Hidetaka Takeoka 《Journal of Oceanography》2006,62(5):657-666

In order to examine the responses of primary productivity in the southern coastal sea of Japan to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) in the 20th century, sedimentary records of diatom productivity (diatom valve fluxes) were reconstructed using core samples from the Bungo Channel (BC) in southwest Japan. The record of the Thalassionema spp. flux—the best index of fall primary productivity in the BC—indicated a multidecadal-scale duration with a low flux (1943–1982) and those with a high flux (1913–1943 and 1982–2001); apparent shifts were recognized in 1943 and 1982. The shift in 1982 was also recognized in the flux records of other early summer to fall predominant genera in the BC and, previously, in the biogenic silica records from a broad region of the southeast BC. This indicates that in our records, this shift reflects a general trend in the primary production in the southeast BC. A comparison among the Thalassionema spp. flux records, meteorological data from an observatory adjacent to the core site, and the PDO index showed that the flux records were more similar to the PDO index than the other meteorological records, which suggests that the multidecadal-scale variability of the BC primary productivity may be associated with some marine-derived forcing. The bottom intrusions of nutrient-rich water that upwelled from the shelf slope into the BC, the axis movement or the transport of the Kuroshio Current off the BC, and a basin-scale wind stress in the North Pacific might play an important role in this forcing and mediate between the BC primary productivity and the PDO.  相似文献   

Significance of Shallow Bottom Friction in the Dynamics of the Tsushima Current   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Young Ho Seung 《Journal of Oceanography》2003,59(1):113-118

A simple analytical model is considered for the dynamics of volume transport of the Tsushima Current. This model is basically baroclinic but allows bottom friction over the shallow regions connecting the Pacific Ocean to the Japan Sea basin, and is thus different from previous models which are either purely barotropic with bottom friction predominating over the whole domain, or purely baroclinic with bottom friction completely ignored. Compared to the previous barotropic model, this model is not only more realistic but also gives much simpler results. It gives the observed downstream sea level slope, which is not seen in the previous baroclinic model. As a result, the estimated transport of the Tsushima Current is closer to the observational data than those of previous models. This model indicates that the localized bottom friction acting over the shallow regions not only controls the transport of the Tsushima Current but also moves the stagnation point of the western boundary current northward. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.  相似文献   

Data Assimilation Modeling of the Barotropic Tides in the Korea/Tsushima Strait     

Jeffrey?W.?BookEmail author  Pavel?Pistek  Henry?Perkins  Keith?R.?Thompson  William?J.?Teague  Gregg?A.?Jacobs  Moon-Sik?Suk  Kyung-Il?Chang  Jae-Chul?Lee  Byung?Ho?Choi 《Journal of Oceanography》2004,60(6):977-993

During 1999–2000, 13 bottom mounted acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCPs) and 12 wave/tide gauges were deployed along two lines across the Korea/Tsushima Strait, providing long-term measurements of currents and bottom pressure. Tidally analyzed velocity and pressure data from the moorings are used in conjunction with other moored ADCPs, coastal tide gauge measurements, and altimeter measurements in a linear barotropic data assimilation model. The model fits the vertically averaged data to the linear shallow water equations in a least-squares sense by only adjusting the incoming gravity waves along the boundaries. Model predictions are made for the O₁, P₁, K₁, μ₂, N₂, M₂, S₂, and K₂ tides. An extensive analysis of the accuracy of the M₂ surface-height predictions suggests that for broad regions near the mooring lines and in the Jeju Strait the amplitude prediction errors are less than 0.5 cm. Elsewhere, the analysis suggests that errors range from 1 to 4 cm with the exception of small regions where the tides are not well determined by the dataset. The errors in the model predictions are primarily caused by bias error in the model’s physics, numerics, and/or parameterization as opposed to random errors in the observational data. In the model predictions, the highest ranges in sea level height occur for tidal constituents M₂, S₂, K₁, O₁, and N₂, with the highest magnitudes of tidal velocities occurring for M₂, K₁, S₂, and O₁. The tides exhibit a complex structure in which diurnal constituents have higher currents relative to their sea level height ranges than semi-diurnal constituents.  相似文献   

Current structure and volume transport of the Soya Warm Current in summer     

Masaji Matsuyama  Makiko Wadaka  Taizo Abe  Masaaki Aota  Yoshio Koike 《Journal of Oceanography》2006,62(2):197-205

ADCP, CTD and XBT observations were conducted to investigate the current structure and temperature, salinity and density distributions in the Soya Warm Current (SWC) in August, 1998 and July, 2000. The ADCP observations clearly revealed the SWC along the Hokkaido coast, with a width of 30–35 km and an axis of maximum speed of 1.0 to 1.3 ms⁻¹, located at 20–25 km from the coast. The current speed gradually increased from the coast to a maximum and steeply decreased in the offshore direction. The SWC consisted of both barotropic and baroclinic components, and the existence of the baroclinic component was confirmed by both the density front near the current axis and vertical shear of the alongshore current. The baroclinic component strengthened the barotropic component in the upper layer near the axis of the SWC. The volume transport of the SWC was 1.2–1.3 SV in August, 1998 and about 1.5 SV and July, 2000, respectively. Of the total transport, 13 to 15% was taken up by the baroclinic component. A weak southeastward current was found off the SWC. It had barotropic characteristics, and is surmised to be a part of the East Sakhalin Current.  相似文献