The characteristic distribution of silica over the East China Sea shelf slope |
| |
| Authors: | Toshimichi Ito Arata Kaneko Hiroyuki Tsubota Noriaki Gohda |
| |
| Institution: | (1) Graduate School of Biosphere Sciences, Hiroshima University, 724 Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan;(2) Faculty of Engineering, Hiroshima University, 724 Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan |
| |
| Abstract: | The localized near-bottom water with silica content higher than that in the adjacent shelf water was observed to exist at the eastern margins of the East China Sea continental shelf. The core of the high silica water possessed the silica content corresponding to that in the Kuroshio at depths greater than on the shelf. The mixing analysis of water masses using temperature (T) and silica (Si) showed that the core water can be produced through the vertical mixing of intermediate water of the Kuroshio deeper than 100 m. This study provides us a conclusion that the intermediate water of the Kuroshio is strongly mixed on the shelf slope and then upwelled to form the ridge-like distribution of water masses with low temperature and high silica content at the shelf edge. |
| |
| Keywords: | |
| 本文献已被 SpringerLink 等数据库收录！ |
