Numerical experiments of the influences of the transport variation through the Korea Strait on the Japan/East Sea upper layer circulation
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Title
- Numerical experiments of the influences of the transport variation through the Korea Strait on the Japan/East Sea upper layer circulation
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Author(s)
- Park, S; Suk, MS; An, HS
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Alternative Author(s)
- 석문식
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Publication Year
- 2005-02
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Abstract
- Numerical experiments were performed in order to investigate the effects of variations of the transport through the Korea/Tsushima Strait, an inlet of the Japan/East Sea, on the upper layer circulation in the JES based on a 10-month transport observation from May 1999 to March 2000 (Perkins et al., 2000). All external forcings to the model were annual mean fields, except the transport variation through the Korea Strait. In the experiments where the periodic variation of the transport repeated continuously sinusoidally by several periods, strong variability of sea surface height (SSH) was detected in the region extending from the Korea Strait to the Japanese coast due to the geostrophy of the buoyancy forcing at the Korea Strait. The region along the Korean coast is more sensitive to the long-term variations than the short-term (less than or equal to60-day period) ones. In two experiments forced by realistic and monthly mean transport, the difference of rms of sea surface height was largest at the Japanese coast and relatively large at the East Korean Warm Current separation region (128similar to130degreesE, 39similar to41degreesN) and to the east of Yamato Rise. The distribution of difference of eddy kinetic energy at 100 m depth between the two experiments was similar to that of the rms of SSH. In the distributions of mean SSH and mean kinetic energy at 100 m depth the realistic transport invokes eddy variability to interact with mean current resulting in the changes of the mean SSH and the mean kinetic energy at the East Korean Warm Current separation region, but it does not produce conspicuous changes in the mean fields of entire JES compared with the mean fields forced by the seasonal transport.
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ISSN
- 0916-8370
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URI
- https://sciwatch.kiost.ac.kr/handle/2020.kiost/5102
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DOI
- 10.1007/s10872-005-0028-0
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Bibliographic Citation
- JOURNAL OF OCEANOGRAPHY, v.61, no.1, pp.155 - 165, 2005
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Publisher
- TERRA SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO
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Subject
- VARIABILITY
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Keywords
- the Japan Sea; the Korea Strait; inflow transport variation; upper layer circulation
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Type
- Article
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Language
- English
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Document Type
- Article
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