Oceanography Glossary Definition (English)
Yellow Sea Defined
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"A marginal sea centered at around 124 E and 37 N in the western Pacific Ocean that is distinguished traditionally although not hydrographically from the adjoining East China Sea to the south. The name comes from huge quantities of sediment discharged into the Bohai Gulf by the Yellow River in China. The traditional demarcation line between the Yellow and East China Seas varies but usually lies somewhere around 33 N. The Yellow Sea can be separated into a northern part, the aforementioned Bohai Bay, and the Yellow Sea proper to the south and east of Bohai Bay.
The hydrographic and circulation properties of both the Yellow and East China Seas are controlled by their proximity to the Kuroshio Current and the seasonal variation of the monsoon winds. The chief currents are a northwest trending branch of the Kuroshio called the Yellow Sea Current, the southward flowing China Coastal Current, and an unnamed current flowing southward along the west coast of Korea that carries low salinity water from the Bohai Gulf. Frontal regions separate the currents in this alternating flow pattern which is identifiable through the year, although the flow strength of the individual currents varies seasonally with the monsoons. See Tomczak and Godfrey (1994)."
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