Observed characteristics of the North Yellow Sea water masses in summer |
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| Authors: | Xianwen Bao Na Li Dexing Wu |
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| Institution: | 1. College of Physical and Environmental Oceanography, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100, China
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| Abstract: | In this paper, we characterize the North Yellow Sea (NYS) water masses in summer by analyzing temperature and salinity data
surveyed in 2006. The Liaonan Coastal Water is characterized by low salinity westward and southward flow paths. The westward
path flows parallel to land, turns to the south, then to the southeast adjacent to the mouth of the Lüshun River, where it
mixes with other coastal water directly to the southwest. It becomes the main source of low salinity water in the deep water
area west of 123°E. The high-salinity Lubei Coastal Water is the remnant of the winter Lubei Coastal Water, which is located
mostly in a small area between Yantai and Weihai, and does not originate in the Bohai Sea Coastal Water. The two NYS zones
demarcated at 123°E have distinctly different temperature and salinity characteristics. There are two high-salinity centers
east of 123°E, whereas there is low-salinity water to the west whose temperature and salinity structures are complex, composed
of the coastal water south of Chengshantou, the Liaonan Coastal Water and the Bohai Sea Water. |
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