Physics
Scientific paper
Apr 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002georl..29h..75k&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 29, Issue 8, pp. 75-1, CiteID 1234, DOI 10.1029/2001GL014498
Physics
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Global Change: Oceans (4203), Oceanography: General: Marginal And Semienclosed Seas, Oceanography: Physical: General Circulation
Scientific paper
We observed a sudden initiation of bottom-water formation in the East/Japan Sea associated with a severely cold winter in 2000-2001. An increase in dissolved oxygen concentration as well as decreases in temperature and nutrient concentrations for the bottom waters provides unequivocal evidence that cold, oxygen-rich and nutrient-poor surface waters were injected directly to the bottom. Since the conveyor-belt in the East Sea has been undergoing dramatic change with a complete halt to bottom-water formation since the mid-1980s, this sudden episode of bottom-water formation could easily be detected. Though the amount of bottom water formed was rather small, being only about 0.03% of the volume in the past time, the observation clearly demonstrates that the conveyor-belt is directly connected to the weather system.
Kim Guebuem
Kim Kuh
Kim Kyung-Ryul
Lobanov V.
Ponomarev V.
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