Variability of Thermohaline Fields in the East China Sea
V. V. Moroza and K. T. Bogdanovb
a Il’ichev Pacific Institute of Oceanology, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia
b Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Received March 1, 2006; in final form, June 26, 2006
Abstract—Characteristic features of the water structure and dynamics in the East China Sea, which is the zone
of the formation of the Kuroshio Current, are studied from a database of mean multiannual hydrological and
meteorological characteristics gathered for more than a half-century period and the data of expeditionary obser-
vations in this region. Characteristic distinctions between the waters in different regions of the current zone are
shown. It was found that the formation of the structure of the water in the current zone is affected by the vari-
ability of the water exchange via the straits of the Ryukyu Islands and by the supply of the shelf waters against
the background of the climatic variability.
DOI: 10.1134/S0001437007020026
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