• Journal of the korean society of oceanography
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• 제33권1-2호
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• pp.1-7
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• 1998

In the western Weddell Sea, winter mixed layer is characterized by near-freezing temperature and higher salinity due to brine injection through sea-ice formation. This layer becomes Winter Water being capped by warmer and less saline Antarctic Surface Water during the sea-ice melt-ing season. In this study, Winter Water was preliminarily identified by the oxygen isotopic com-positions. The ${\delta}^{18}$O values of Winter Water show the progressively increasing trend from south to north in the study area. It presumably reflects the enhanced mixing with Antarctic Surface Water due to the extent of influence by low S'"0 value of sea-ice/glacier meltwater. Correlations between salinity and 6'"0 values of seawater can be used to more generally characterize Winter Water with a view to identification. However, the prediction on the degree of mixing from these relationships needs more detailed isotope data, although this study allows the oxygen isotopic composition of seawater as a tracer to identify the water mass.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.607-618
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• 2004

Zooplankton community was surveyed during the Seventh Korea Antarctic Research Program, from 28 December 1993 to 11 January 1994. Zooplankton samples were collected at 40 stations from the waters around the South Shetland Islands with a Bongo net and a MOCNESS. A total of 14 taxa of zooplankton were identified. Zooplankton abundances varied at each station as well as with the sampling gears. Zooplankton abundances were higher in the Western Weddell Sea than those in the Bransfield strait. Zooplankton collected with MOCNESS showed a different vertical distribution depending on its depths at selected stations. Copepods were the major components of zooplankton contributing 72.84% (mesh size $333{\mu}m$) and 68.36% (mesh size $505{\mu}m$) of total zooplankton abundance from the Bongo samples. Salps were the second most abundant group comprising 7.92% $(333{\mu}m)$ and 11.99% $(505{\mu}m)$ of total zooplankton abundance. Euphausiids, chaetognaths, polychaetes, pteropods and ostracods occurred more than 1% of total zooplankton. Copepods were not abundant at stations salps and euphausiids were dominant. Salpa thompsoni, Euphausia superba, Calanoides acutus, Metridia gerlachei and Calanus propinquus were dominant depending on the stations. The hierarchical UPGMA cluster analysis of dissimilarities between sampling stations is displayed with clusters identified similar habitats. Copepods rarely appeared in the clusters 4 and 5, and they appeared a ffw in the cluster 3 (or salps were numerous), while copepods were abundant in the clusters 1 and 2. As in the results of cluster analysis, the distributions of dominant taxa have a well identified correspondence to the geological positions included physical factors.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.130-137
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• 2001

브랜스필드 동부 분지에서 얻은 길이 약 5m의 시추코어(A9-EB2)에서 채취된 44개의 시료로부터 총 41속 58종의 방산충이 감정되었으며, Antarctissa denticulata, A. longa, A. strelkovi, Lithomelissa setosa, Lithomitra lineata, Peridium longispinum와 Phormacantha hystrix 등이 우세종으로 이들이 총 산출량의 75%를 차지한다 시추코어에서 산출된 방산충 군집의 대부분은 긴 지질 시대를 나타내는 종들이며, Phaeodarian목의 Challengeriidae과에 속하는 Challengeron 속과 P개tocystis 속은 일반적으로 제4기에서 산출되므로 시추 퇴적물의 대략적인 지질 시대는 제4기(Pleistocene-Holocene)에 해당된다. 방산충 군집의 종조성은 Antarctissa strelkovi, A. denticulata, Cycladophora davisiana와 Larcopyle buetschlii등 전형적인 남극종(Circumpolar group)들이 다른 종들에 비해 상대적으로 다량 산출된다. 또한 연안 환경을 지시하는 Plectacantha oikiskos, Phomacantha hystrix와 원양 환경을 지시하는 Lithomelissa setosa가 함께 산출된다. 남극종의 산출과 Phomacantha-Plectacantha group이 Lithomelissa group의 산출량보다 많은 것으로 보아, 연구 지역은 남극순환수(Antarctic Circumpolar Current)나 벨링스하우젠해로부터 해류의 영향을 받은 연안 환경 지역이나 서쪽의 원양 환경인 웨델해로부터 브랜스필드 분지로 차가운 물이 유입되었음을 알 수 있다.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.1-18
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• 2002

Seasonal variation in global transport calculated from an ocean general circulation model (OGCM) has been assessed through the comparison with observational estimates. The OGCM based on the GFDL MOM1.1 has honzontal grid interval of 10 and 21 verticle levels, and was integrated for 31 years forced by climatological wind stress, freshwater flux, and heat flux with restoring. General features of the world ocean circulation are well reproduced, which include the western boundary currents such as the Kuroshio and the Agulhas Current, the Equatorial Current system, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, and the Weddell Sea gyres. Also well resolved is the remarkable seasonal variation in the depth-integrated flows in the northern Indian Ocean due to the monsoonal wind. Monthly variation is found to be dominant in the transport of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current through the Drake Passage in accordance with observational estimates. It has been shown that the mid-latitude depth-integrated flows obey the Sverdrup relation, except for some regions such as continental shelf regions where the interaction between stratification and bottom topography is critical.