Aspiration and outflow of the intermediate water in the East/Japan Sea through the Tsugaru Strait
Aspiration and outflow of the intermediate water in the East/Japan Sea through the Tsugaru Strait
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2008-04-01
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Park, Jong Jin
Kim, Kuh
Yang, Joon-Yong
Kim, Kuh
Yang, Joon-Yong
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10.1029/2007GL032981
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Profiling float
East/Japan Sea
Profiling float
East/Japan Sea
Abstract
Outflow of the intermediate water in the East/Japan Sea through the Tsugaru Strait is inferred from the fact that profiling floats deployed below the sill depth in the central East/Japan Sea moved out to the Northwest Pacific Ocean through the Strait. Careful analysis of the float trajectories reveals that profiling floats parked at 350m, 700m, and 800m could be uplifted from depths below the sill of the Tsugaru Strait and moved over the 140m deep sill with a probability close to 100%. Application of an analytical model for the Bernoulli suction shows that intermediate waters can be aspirated over the sill depth of the Tsugaru Strait in late winter.
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Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2008. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Geophysical Research Letters 35 (2008): L07601, doi:10.1029/2007GL032981.
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Geophysical Research Letters 35 (2008): L07601