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Pushing the frontiers of marine ecological modeling: where are we now and how can we move forward?
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Multiple causes of hypoxia in the East China Sea: Some notes from observations and modelling Monday 7th @ 1510-1530, Conference Room 5 Feng Zhou* , Second Institute of Oceanography, SOA Presenter Email: zhoufeng@sio.org.cn |
Patch-like hypoxic zones have been observed in the East China Seas, ranging from the Changjiang Estuary (CJE) to the offshore of the Zhejiang coast and the west of the Cheju Island. Compared to the general knowledge on generation of hypoxia, multiple factors may affect the evolution and distribution of hypoxia in the East China Sea due to complex circulations, different sources of organic matter and low-oxygen water etc. A coupled physical-biogeochemical model was applied to diagnose the spatial-temporal characteristics of hypoxia. The model suggested that hypoxic extent off the CJE is highly variable in largely accordance with the Changjiang diluted water and could be partially influenced by the advection of the Kuroshio intruded water at bottom. Comparatively, the hypoxia and quasi-hypoxia conditions along the Zhejiang coastal water and west of the Cheju Island seem to be caused mostly by the cross-shelf intrusion of the Kuroshio. A few numerical experiments on the boundaries and lagrangian tracking will be discussed.
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