Spatial and temporal aspects of phytoplankton blooms in complex ecosystems off the korean coast from satellite ocean color observations |
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| Authors: | Yu -Hwan Ahn Palanisamy Shanmugam Kyung- Il Chang Jeong -Eon Moon Joo -Hyung Ryu |
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| Institution: | (1) Satellite Ocean Research Laboratory, KORDI, P.O. Box 29, 425-600 Ansan, Seoul, Korea;(2) School of the Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University, 151-747 Seoul, Korea |
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| Abstract: | Complex physical, chemical and biological interactions off the Korean coast created several striking patterns in the phytoplankton
blooms, which became conspicuous during the measurements of ocean color from space. This study concentrated on analyzing the
spatial and temporal aspects of phytoplankton chlorophyll variability in these areas using an integrated dataset from a Sea-viewing
Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS), Advanced Very High Resolution (AVHRR) sensor, and Conductivity Temperature Depth (CTD)
sensor. The results showed that chlorophyll concentrations were elevated in coastal and open ocean regions, with strong summer
and fall blooms, which appeared to spread out in most of the enclosed bays and neighboring waters due to certain oceanographic
processes. The chlorophyll concentration was observed to range between 3 and 54 mg m-3 inside Jin-hae Bay and adjacent coastal bays and 0.5 and 8 mg m-3 in the southeast sea offshore waters, this gradual decrease towards oceanic waters suggested physical transports of phytoplankton
blooms from the shallow shelves to slope waters through the influence of the Tsushima Warm Current (TWC) along the Tsushima
Strait. Horizontal distribution of potential temperature (θ) and salinity (S) of water off the southeastern coast exhibited
cold and low saline surface water (θ<19°C; S<32.4) and warm and high saline subsurface water (θ>12°C; S>34.4) at 75dBar, corroborating
TWC intrusion along the Tsushima Strait. An eastward branch of this current was called the East Korean Warm Current (EKWC),
tracked with the help of CTD data and satellite-derived sea surface temperature, which often influenced the dynamics of mesoscale
anticyclonic eddy fields off the Korean east coast during the summer season. The process of such mesoscale anticyclonic eddy
features might have produced interior upwelling that could have shoaled and steepened the nutricline, enhancing phytoplankton
population by advection or diffusion of nutrients in the vicinity of Ulleungdo in the East Sea. |
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| Keywords: | remote sensing complex ecosystem phytoplankton blooms upwelling anticyclonic eddy SeaWiFS AVHRR CTD survey |
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