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Hoshika, Akira; Tanimoto, Terumi; Mishima, Yasuo

doi:10.1023/a:1007862617800

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“…A strait is a natural and narrow waterway connecting two large water bodies between land masses. Given its special geographical location, the material fluxes through a sea strait bear major influences on two adjoining water bodies with impacts on mass, salt, pollutant, and energy budgets and thereby play a critical role in regional and global biogeochemical processes (Chung et al, 2001;Ferentinos & Kastanos, 1988;Hoshika et al, 1999;Wells, 1988). During the last several decades, investigations on water and sediments transport through sea straits have seen significant developments and received increasingly more attentions (Jordà et al, 2017;Li et al, 2015;Maren & Gerritsen, 2012;Pratt, 1990;Rossby & Flagg, 2012).…”

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Novel, Repeated Surveys Reveal New Insights on Sediment Flux Through a Narrow Strait, Bohai, China

Wang

et al. 2019

JGR Oceans

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Straits are both a choke point and passage through which material and energy are exchanged between two adjoining water bodies. Understanding the mechanisms that drive these exchanges therefore is vital to quantifying the water and sediment budgets in regional and global oceans. Here we present a study in which a novel, phase‐averaging method was employed to better estimate the net‐suspended sediment fluxes through the entire Bohai Strait, the only passage for the massive Yellow River‐delivered sediment to leave the enclosed Bohai Sea for the open Yellow Sea. In winter, the transport through the strait was nearly barotropic in waters well mixed by the energetic winter monsoons. The transport became primarily baroclinic (opposite directions between upper and lower layers) in spring due to stratification, especially in the southern part of the strait. Intermittent but frequent southerly winds in northerly dominated winters were responsible for a net westward sediment transport into the Bohai Sea, a finding contrary to a status quo view. Hence, previous studies in which these intermittent southerly wind busts were not included are believed to have overestimated the sediments export from the Bohai Sea.

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Novel, Repeated Surveys Reveal New Insights on Sediment Flux Through a Narrow Strait, Bohai, China

Wang

et al. 2019

JGR Oceans

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“…Such exchanges of material (water, nutrients, sediment, etc.) and energy (heat) play a critical role in redistribution of heat, salt, pollutants and sediments-as well as regionally biogeochemical cycles [1][2][3].…”

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“…Water 2020, 12, x FOR PEER REVIEW 2 of 20 energy (heat) play a critical role in redistribution of heat, salt, pollutants and sediments-as well as regionally biogeochemical cycles [1][2][3]. The Bohai Strait (BHS) between Shandong and Liaodong peninsula is the only pathway connecting two epeiric seas in the northern China, the Bohai Sea (BH) and the North Yellow Sea (NYS) ( Figure 1).…”

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Periodic Oscillation of Sediment Transport Influenced by Winter Synoptic Events, Bohai Strait, China

Duan

et al. 2020

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Instruments on two bottom-mount platforms deployed in the Bohai Strait during a cruise from January 6–13, 2018 recorded an intense northerly wind event. The responses of hydrodynamic and hydrographical characteristics in Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea to the wind event were analyzed aided by the wind, wave, sea surface suspended sediment concentration and sea surface height datasets from open sources. It is shown that the strong wind event had a significant impact on the redistribution of sea surface height, regional wave conditions, regional circulations and the accompanying sediment transport pattern. Specifically, the sediment transport through the Bohai Strait may be divided into two chronological phases related to the wind event: (1) the enhanced sediment transport phase during the buildup and peak of the wind event when both the Northern Shandong Coastal Current and regional suspended sediment concentration were sharply increased; and (2) the relaxation phase when the northerly wind subsided or even reversed, accompanied by the enhanced Yellow Sea Warm Current with lowered suspended sediment concentration. Such results at synoptic scale would improve our capability of quantifying sediment exchange between the Bohai and Yellow sea, through the Bohai Strait and provide valuable reference for the study of other similar environments worldwide.

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