Friday 26 August 2005

P7
0850-1020 hours

445
Chemical and physical fronts in the Bohai, Yellow and East China Seas
Chen, Chen-Tung Arthur¹
1 National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Author email: ctchen@mail.nsysu.edu.tw
Oceanic fronts are associated with strong mixing and stirring as well as enhanced bioproductivity and ecotones, and have attracted much attention recently. After satellites become available oceanic fronts, especially thermal fronts, are studied with relative ease. However, salinity and density fronts, particularly those subsurface, are less studied. What follows is a review of what is known about thermal, salinity and density fronts in the Bohai, Yellow and East China Seas, and their seasonal variations. These fronts relate to other oceanic features such as boundaries between water masses, current flow patterns and distribution of nutrients.

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