Favorable conditions for cold-water intrusion from the Kuroshio intermediate layer into Osaka Bay |
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| Authors: | Koichi Sugimatsu Atsuhiko Isobe |
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| Institution: | (1) National Research Institute of Fisheries Engineering, Fisheries Research Agency, 7620-7 Hasaki, Kamisu Ibaraki, 314-0408, Japan;(2) Center for Marine Environmental Studies, Ehime University, 2-5 Bunkyo-cho, Matsuyama 790-8577, Japan |
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| Abstract: | From 1980 to 1995, in August, the bottom layer of Osaka Bay was occupied by cold, nutrient-rich water compared with that observed
during both previous and subsequent decades. To investigate the mechanisms for the intrusion of bottom-layer cold water into
Osaka Bay, the intrusion into Osaka Bay via the Kii Channel is simulated using a finite-volume coastal ocean model with unstructured
triangular cell grids. The initial conditions, boundary conditions, and surface temperature given to the model are obtained
from daily reanalysis data provided by the Japan Coastal Ocean Predictability Experiment. The model shows that cold water
uplifted on the eastern side of the Kii Peninsula is propagated westward at 1.0 m/s as a coastal boundary current; it reaches
the Kii Channel mouth when the Kuroshio axis is located around 74 km south of Cape Shionomisaki. However, the modeled cold
water mass at the Kii Channel mouth does not intrude further to the north of the Kii Channel; therefore, another mechanism
is required to explain the cold-water intrusion into the bottom layer of Osaka Bay. A plausible explanation is the estuarine
circulation established by the freshwater supply at the bay head. When the river runoff is included in the model without forced
vertical mixing, the temperature in Osaka Bay decreases 6.6 days later than the temperature decreases at the Kii Channel mouth.
Furthermore, the shoreward current speed in the bottom layer of the modeled estuarine circulation is 15 cm/s, which provides
the mechanism required for the cold water mass to pass the Kii Channel. |
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