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Title

Oceanography of the East Sea (Japan Sea) / Kyung-Il Chang, Chang-Ik Zhang, Chul Park, Dong-Jin Kang, Se-Jong Ju, Sang-Hoon Lee, Mark Wimbush, editors.

Publication

Cham ; New York : Springer International Publishing, 2016.

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Additional Authors

Chang, Kyŏng-il, 1958-

Description

xvi, 460 pages : color illustrations, color maps; 24 cm

Summary

The East Sea (Japan Sea) is a semi-enclosed marginal sea surrounded by the East Asian continent and Japanese Islands in the northwest Pacific. It is topographically isolated from the North Pacific which allows only a small portion of the Kuroshio penetrating into the sea. In spite of its small basin size of about 10^6 km^2 and semi-isolated topography, many unique open ocean processes have been observed and identified, especially the existence of its own thermohaline circulation. Early oceanographic survey in the East Sea dates back to mid-19th century followed by numerous basin- or subbasin-scale regular and/or process-oriented observations conducted by surrounding countries, independently or cooperatively, and also by overseas countries. The advent of satellite-tracked drifters and floats and the availability of various satellite-derived products have greatly contributed to understanding and finding important oceanographic processes. Mooring technology used in the East Sea has made progress for establishing some long-term local and global time-series stations.

Subject

• Meereskunde
• Oceanography > Japan, Sea of
• Oceanography
• Japanisches Meer
• Pacific Ocean > Sea of Japan

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

General introduction -- Forcings -- Water masses and their long-term variability -- Circulation -- High-frequency variability: basin-scale oscillations and internal waves/tides -- Dissolved oxygen and nutrients -- Natural and anthropogenic carbon cycling -- Uranium series radionuclides -- Distribution of chemical elements in sediments -- Phytoplankton and primary production -- Microbial ecology and biogeochemical processess in the Ulleung Basin -- Zooplankton -- Fish and Fisheries -- Marine mammals -- Physiography and late Quarternary sedimentation -- Crustal structure and tectonic evolution of the East Sea -- Stratigraphy.

ISBN

• 9783319227191
• 331922719X

LCCN

^^2015946090

OCLC

• 913557271
• SCSB-13715680

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library