Seasonal Suspended Particles Distribution Patterns in Western South Yellow Sea Based on Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler Observation.pdfVIP

J．OceanUniv．China(OceanicandCoastalSeaResearch) DOI10．1007／sl1802．015．2762．2 ISSN 1672—5182，201514(3)：385—398 http．／／www．ouc．edu．cn／xbywb／ E-mail：xbywb@ouc．edu．cn SeasonalSuspendedParticlesDistributionPatternsinW estern SouthYellow SeaBasedonAcousticDoppler CurrentProfilerObservation LIJianchao ，，LIGuangxue)，)’ XU Jishang)， QIAOLulu)，，DONGPing)，， ， ， DING Dong)， LIU Shidong)， andSUN Pingkuo)，) ， ， 1)KeyLabofSubmarineSciences＆ProspectingTechniq2,les，ALOE,OceanUniversityofChina，Qingdao2661O0，PR．China 2)CollegeofMarineGeosciences，OceanUniversiytofChina，Qingdao266100，PR．China (ReceivedOctober12，2014；revisedDecember4，2014；acceptedMarch15，2015) @ OceanUniversityofChina．SciencePressandSpringer-VerlagBerlinHeidelberg2015 Abstract AnAcousticDopplerCurrentProfiler(ADCP)observationsitewassetupintheWestemSouthYellowSeafrom2012to 2013tostudythelocalsuspendedparticlematters(SPM)distributionpattem．TheSPM concentrationcouldbesemi—quantitatively representedbybackscatterintensityfvl)，convertedbytheechointensity ofADCP．ResultsshowtwotypesofSPM inthewater column：thequasi．biologicalSPM andquasi．mineralSPM ．Thequasi．biologicalSPM mainlyexistsinsummerhalfyearandiscon． centratedabovethethermocline．Ithasperiodicallydiurnalvariationswithhighconcentrationatnightandlow concenrtationinthe daytime．Thequasi—minera1SPM islocatedinlowerpartofthewatercolumn．withsimilarrelationtomonthlytidalcurrentvariation allyearround．However,thedailyquasi．minera1SPM distributionpattemsvarybetweensummerandwinterhalfyear．Thesunlight isthoughttobetheoriginfactorleadingtothediurnallyverticalmotionofthebiologica1features．whichmightcausethediumalSv variation．Unlikeinwinterhalfyera whentidalcurrentisrelativelysingledrivingforceofthemonthlySPM pattem ．thehighspeed currentnera thethermoclineisalsoresponsiblefortheconcenrtationofquasi．mineralSPM insummerhalfyear．Thesedimentinput differencebewt