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标题：Variation of Semidiurnal Internal Tides along the Southeastern Coast of Korea Induced by Typhoons
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作者：Jeong-Yeob Chae ; Chanhyung Jeon ; Pyeongjoong Kim 等
期刊名称：Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
电子版ISSN：2077-1312
出版年度：2021
卷号：9
期号：3
页码：328
DOI：10.3390/jmse9030328
语种：English
出版社：MDPI AG
摘要：Typhoon-induced strong winds can dramatically change the oceanic environment, occasionally resulting in sudden stratification changes. In July 2015, two consecutive typhoons, Chanhom and Nangka, passed over the Yellow and East/Japan Seas within a week. Remarkable temperature variations were observed near the southeastern coast of Korea, caused by typhoon-induced upwelling and downwelling events, which altered the energy of semidiurnal internal tides. During the typhoon-induced downwelling event, the energy of semidiurnal internal tides near the southeastern coast of Korea varied independently from the barotropic tidal forcing. Data-assimilated numerical simulation results reveal that the pycnocline, which is typically tilted toward the coast, enables the semidiurnal internal tidal energy to propagate toward shallow regions after being generated off the coast. Meanwhile, the downwelling event deepens the pycnocline near the coast and reflects and concentrates the semidiurnal internal tide energy near the bottom off the coast. A simple mechanism using the ratio between the wave characteristic slope and the bottom slope is proposed to explain the observed variations of semidiurnal internal tide energy near the coast. This paper demonstrates a case study showing that typhoon passage can modify the energetics of internal tides, which has the potential to cause unusual short-term coastal environmental changes.