Interannual salinity variability of the Northern Yellow Sea Cold Water Mass -- Journal of Oceanology and Limnology,2015,33(3):779-789

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	LI Ang, YU Fei, DIAO Xinyuan. Interannual salinity variability of the Northern Yellow Sea Cold Water Mass[J]. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2015, 33(3): 779-789

Interannual salinity variability of the Northern Yellow Sea Cold Water Mass

LI Ang^1,2, YU Fei¹, DIAO Xinyuan¹

1 Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China;
2 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Abstract:

This paper discusses the interannual variability of the Northern Yellow Sea Cold Water Mass (NYSCWM) and the factors that influence it, based on survey data from the 1976-2006 national standard section and the Korea Oceanographic Data Center, monthly E-P flux data from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, and meridional wind speed data from the International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set. The results show that: 1) the mean salinity of the NYSCWM center has a slightly decreasing trend, which is not consistent with the high salinity center; 2) both the southern salinity front and the halocline of the NYSCWM display a weakening trend, which indicates that the difference between the NYSCWM and coastal water decreases; 3) the Yellow Sea Warm Current intrusion, the E-P flux of the northern Yellow Sea, and the strength of the winter monsoon will affect the NYSCWM salinity during the following summer.

Key words: Northern Yellow Sea Cold Water Mass (NYSCWM)|salinity|interannual variability|linear trend

Received: 2014-08-01 Revised: 2014-10-21

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