Oceanography of Asian Marginal Seas

K. Takano

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1991
• Print ISBN:
  9780444888051
• eBook ISBN:
  9780080870922
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Geophysics

This volume contains 31 papers on physical and geological oceanography, marine engineering and meterology in the Japan Sea and the East China Sea. Almost all these papers were presented at the Fifth JECSS (Japan and East China Seas Study) Workshop held in Korea in 1989. Results of multinational cooperative studies carried out since the initiation of JECSS in 1981 are presented. Authors are from China, Japan, Korea, UK, USA and USSR. A wide range of subjects are covered from the viewpoint of various disciplines. The status of recent research on Asian marginal seas is outlined and points at issue are defined. An important aspect is the coverage of results from the USSR and China which are not normally easily accessible to scientists in other countries, despite the importance of this research to the international scientific community. Various subjects, from estuaries to the problems related to the whole north Pacific, are covered in this book, and it is recommended to scientists in coastal oceanography, environmental oceanography, mesoscale (synoptic scale) oceanography and large-scale oceanography.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Oceanography of Asian Marginal Seas
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1. Observational characteristics of internal temperature fluctuations in the mid-latitude North Pacific
• Chapter 2. Tidal computation of the East China Sea, the Yellow Sea and the East Sea
• Chapter 3. Nonlinear Rossby waves in the inertial boundary current and their possible relation to the variability of the Kuroshio
• Chapter 4. Laboratory experiments of periodically forced homogeneous flow in a rotating cylindrical container
• Chapter 5. Remote sensing for modelling of variation in primary production fields
• Chapter 6. Reflection of the oceanic fronts on the satellite radar images
• Chapter 7. SST structure of the polar front in the Japan Sea
• Chapter 8. A numerical experiment on the seasonal variation of the oceanic circulation in the Japan Sea
• Chapter 9. On the Intermediate Water in the southeastern East Sea (Sea of Japan)
• Chapter 10. Modern sedimentation of San'in district in the southern Japan Sea
• Chapter 11. Effects of winter cooling on subsurface hydrographic conditions off Korean coast in the East (Japan) Sea
• Chapter 12. An observation of sectional velocity structures and transport of the Tsushima Current across the Korea Strait
• Chapter 13. Measuring transports through straits
• Chapter 14. A cross-spectral analysis of small voltage variation in a submarine cable between Hamada and Pusan with speed variation of the Tsushima Warm Current
• Chapter 15. Outflows from straits
• Chapter 16. Dispersal patterns of river-derived fine-grained sediments on the inner shelf
• Chapter 17. Estimation of atmospheric variables and fluxes on the ocean surface around Korean Peninsula
• Chapter 18. Identification of water masses in the Yellow Sea and the East China sea by cluster analysis
• Chapter 19. Synoptic band wintertime heat exchanges in the Yellow Sea
• Chapter 20. Numerical prediction of the vertical thermal structure in the Bohai and Huanghai Seas - Two-dimensional numerical prediction model
• Chapter 21. Development of towed vehicle systems for acoustic doppler current profiler
• Chapter 22. A study of the Kuroshio in the East China Sea and the currents east of the Ryukyu Islands in 1988
• Chapter 23. Three numerical models of the Guanhe estuary
• Chapter 24. Geostrophic current and associated vertical motion off northeastern Taiwan
• Chapter 25. Water volume transport through the Taiwan Strait and the continental shelf of the East China Sea measured with current meters
• Chapter 26. A subsurface northward current off Mindanao identified by dynamic calculation
• Chapter 27. The mechanism of explosive cyclogenesis over the sea east of China and Japan
• Chapter 28. The effect of swell on the growth of wind waves
• Chapter 29. The thermal effluent problems of three nuclear power plants in Taiwan
• Chapter 30. A simple dynamic calculation of launching a line
• Chapter 31. Free transverse vibration of an elastic circular cylinder in a fluid