| Supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the research into the Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) was initiated in China in 1997. Two CAS projects, “Land-Ocean Interactions in the China Seas and Their Environmental Impacts” (1997-2000) and “Study on Land-Ocean Interactions in the Chinese Main Estuaries and Adjacent Continental Shelf” (2000-2003), were successively carried out and led by the Institute of Oceanology, the CAS. The projects focused on some important issues in the Chinese coastal seas involved with the LOICZ, such as the variability of materials discharged from the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, the processes of circulation and transportation of water, fine material and nutrients on the East China Sea (ECS) and Yellow Sea (YS) continental shelves, the distribution and variation of primary production limiting factors in the ECS, the contributions and their evolutions of the Yangtze River diluted water and Taiwan Warm Current to the nutrient supply of the Zhoushan Fishery Ground, and the sand transport dynamics in the Yellow River Estuary. Many progresses have been made and are reviewed in this paper. |
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