Surface Impacts of Springtime Extratropical Cyclones over the Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea, East Asia

Abstract. Nitric oxide (NO) is a short-lived compound of the marine nitrogen cycle; however, our knowledge about its oceanic distribution and turnover is rudimentary. Here we present the measurements of dissolved NO in the surface and bottom layers at 75 stations in the Bohai Sea (BS) and the Yellow Sea (YS) in June 2011. Moreover, NO photoproduction rates were determined at 27 stations in both seas. The NO concentrations in the surface and bottom layers were highly variable and ranged from below the limit of detection (i.e., 32 pmol L−1) to 616 pmol L−1 in the surface layer and 482 pmol L−1 in the bottom layer. There was no significant difference (p>0.05) between the mean NO concentrations in the surface (186±108 pmol L−1) and bottom (174±123 pmol L−1) layers. A decreasing trend of NO in bottom-layer concentrations with salinity indicates a NO input by submarine groundwater discharge. NO in the surface layer was supersaturated at all stations during both day and night and therefore the BS and YS were a persistent source of NO to the atmosphere at the time of our measurements. The average flux was about 4.5×10-16 mol cm−2 s−1 and the flux showed significant positive relationship with the wind speed. The accumulation of NO during daytime was a result of photochemical production, and photoproduction rates were correlated to illuminance. The persistent nighttime NO supersaturation pointed to an unidentified NO dark production. NO sea-to-air flux densities were much lower than the NO photoproduction rates. Therefore, we conclude that the bulk of the NO produced in the mixed layer was rapidly consumed before its release to the atmosphere.

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Accumulation and ecological risk of heavy metals in soils along the coastal areas of the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea: A comparative study of China and South Korea

Environment International ◽

10.1016/j.envint.2020.105519 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 137 ◽

pp. 105519 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Peng Liu ◽

Wenyou Hu ◽

Kang Tian ◽

Biao Huang ◽

Yongcun Zhao ◽

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Keyword(s):

Heavy Metals ◽

South Korea ◽

Comparative Study ◽

Ecological Risk ◽

Yellow Sea ◽

Bohai Sea ◽

Coastal Areas ◽

The Yellow Sea ◽

The Bohai Sea ◽

Heavy Metals In Soils

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Characterization of Bacterial Communities in Bioaerosols over Northern Chinese Marginal Seas and the Northwestern Pacific Ocean in Spring

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology ◽

10.1175/jamc-d-18-0142.1 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 58 (4) ◽

pp. 903-917 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Manman Ma ◽

Yu Zhen ◽

Tiezhu Mi

Keyword(s):

Pacific Ocean ◽

Yellow Sea ◽

Bacterial Communities ◽

Bohai Sea ◽

The Yellow Sea ◽

Northwestern Pacific ◽

Particle Sizes ◽

Marine Aerosols ◽

Northwestern Pacific Ocean ◽

The Bohai Sea

AbstractStudies of the community structures of bacteria in marine aerosols of different particle sizes have not been reported. Aerosol samples were collected using a six-stage bioaerosol sampler over the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea, and northwestern Pacific Ocean in the spring of 2014. The diversity and composition of these samples were investigated by Illumina high-throughput sequencing, and 130 genera were detected in all of the samples; the most abundant bacterial genus was Bacteroides, followed by Prevotella and Megamonas. The Chao1 and Shannon diversity indices ranged from 193 to 1044 and from 5.44 to 8.33, respectively. The bacterial community structure in coarse particles (diameter larger than 2.1 μm) was more complex and diverse than that in fine particles (diameter less than 2.1 μm) in marine bioaerosols from over the Yellow Sea and northwestern Pacific Ocean, while the opposite trend was observed for samples collected over the Bohai Sea. Although we were sampling over marine regions, the sources of the bioaerosols were mostly continental. Temperature and wind speed significantly influenced the bacterial communities in marine aerosols of different particle sizes. There may be a bacterial background in the atmosphere in the form of several dominant taxa, and the bacterial communities are likely mixed constantly during transmission.

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Occurrence and distribution of marine natural organic pollutants: Lipophilic marine algal toxins in the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea, China

The Science of The Total Environment ◽

10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.08.304 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 612 ◽

pp. 931-939 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Junhui Chen ◽

Tongzhu Han ◽

Xiaotong Li ◽

Xiuping He ◽

Yanlong Wang ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Organic Pollutants ◽

Yellow Sea ◽

Bohai Sea ◽

The Yellow Sea ◽

Algal Toxins ◽

The Bohai Sea ◽

Marine Algal

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The silica-carbon biogeochemical cycle in the Bohai Sea and its responses to the changing terrestrial loadings

10.5194/bg-2016-42 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Jun Liu ◽

Lex Bouwman ◽

Jiaye Zang ◽

Chenying Zhao ◽

Xiaochen Liu ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Primary Production ◽

Water Column ◽

Yellow Sea ◽

Bohai Sea ◽

Critical Role ◽

The Yellow Sea ◽

Organic C ◽

Riverine Input ◽

The Bohai Sea ◽

River Loads

Abstract. Silicon (Si) and carbon (C) play key roles in the river and marine biogeochemistry. The Si and C budgets for the Bohai Sea were established on the basis of measurements at a range of stations and additional data from the literature. The results show that the spatial distributions of reactive Si and organic C (OC) in the water column are largely affected by the riverine input, primary production and export to the Yellow Sea. Biogenic silica (BSi) and total OC in sediments are mainly from marine primary production. The major supply of dissolved silicate (DSi) comes from benthic diffusion, riverine input alone accounts for 17 % of reactive Si inputs to the Bohai Sea; the dominant DSi removal from the water column is diatom uptake, followed by sedimentation. Rivers contribute 47 % of exogenous OC inputs to the Bohai Sea; the dominant outputs of OC are sedimentation and export to the Yellow Sea. The net burial of BSi and OC represent 3.3 % and 1.0 % of total primary production, respectively. Primary production has increased by 10 % since 2002 as a result of increased river loads of DSi and BSi. Our findings underline the critical role of riverine Si supply in primary production in coastal marine ecosystems.

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Fate, source and mass budget of sedimentary microplastics in the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea

Environmental Pollution ◽

10.1016/j.envpol.2021.118640 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 294 ◽

pp. 118640

Author(s):

Mingyu Zhang ◽

Yan Lin ◽

Andy M. Booth ◽

Xikun Song ◽

Yaozong Cui ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Yellow Sea ◽

Bohai Sea ◽

The Yellow Sea ◽

Mass Budget ◽

The Bohai Sea

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Detrital Zircon U-Pb Ages in the East China Seas: Implications for Provenance Analysis and Sediment Budgeting

Minerals ◽

10.3390/min10050398 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (5) ◽

pp. 398

Author(s):

Xiangtong Huang ◽

Jiaze Song ◽

Wei Yue ◽

Zhongbo Wang ◽

Xi Mei ◽

...

Keyword(s):

East China Sea ◽

Yellow Sea ◽

Bohai Sea ◽

East China ◽

China Seas ◽

Provenance Analysis ◽

The East China Sea ◽

The Bohai Sea ◽

China Sea ◽

Source Regions

Linking marine sinks to potential terrestrial sources is one of most intriguing but challenging aspects of sediment source-to-sink studies. In this study, we analyzed 23 zircon samples (3271 filtered best ages) from surface sediments of the east China seas (ECSs) that cover a large portion of the Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, East China Sea to part of the northeastern South China Sea. The results of U-Pb age distributions exhibit variable signatures in different seas. The Bohai Sea is characterized by 4 age populations at 203–286 Ma, 383–481 Ma, 1830–1940 Ma and 2480–2548 Ma, whereas the southern Yellow Sea and the East China Sea are featured by 5 age populations at 176–223 Ma, 383–481 Ma, 732–830 Ma, 1830–1940 Ma and 2480–2548 Ma. We propose that the presence or absence of the population of 732–830 Ma in the Yangtze Craton (YC) and the North China Craton (NCC) is a possible geochronological signature to distinguish zircon grains derived from the two source regions. Furthermore, on the basis of multidimensional scaling (MDS), U-Pb ages in the sediments of the Bohai Sea, East China Sea and the Taiwan Strait could be correspondently linked to those of the Yellow River, the Yangtze River and Taiwan rivers. The good linkages support the view that U-Pb age distributions of detrital zircons in the margin seas are mainly controlled by fluvial discharges, and ultimately, by the tectonic history of the corresponding source regions. Using a sediment forward mixing model, we obtained the relative sediment contributions and spatial variations of five most important river discharges in the region. The mixing results suggest that the major rivers in the region, i.e., the Yangtze and the Yellow Rivers, are the dominant sediment contributors to the continental margin, and their mixing coefficients could be used to infer relative sediment budgeting. In addition, spatial variations in mixing coefficient in the East China Sea indicate that sediment mixing and partitioning processes in the marine depositional environment have played a part role in propagating the provenance signals as a result of interaction of oceanic currents and tides. The combined method between provenance analysis and mixing modeling provides a feasible way to appreciate sediment budgeting in the geological past.

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Diversity of the microbial community and cultivable protease-producing bacteria in the sediments of the Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea and South China Sea

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0215328 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 14 (4) ◽

pp. e0215328 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Jiang Zhang ◽

Ming Chen ◽

Jiafeng Huang ◽

Xinwu Guo ◽

Yanjiao Zhang ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Microbial Community ◽

South China Sea ◽

South China ◽

Yellow Sea ◽

Bohai Sea ◽

The Bohai Sea ◽

China Sea

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Wave Energy Assessment in the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea Based on a 40-Year Hindcast

Water ◽

10.3390/w12082087 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (8) ◽

pp. 2087

Author(s):

Jie Dong ◽

Jian Shi ◽

Jianchun Zhao ◽

Chi Zhang ◽

Haiyan Xu

Keyword(s):

Wave Height ◽

Wave Energy ◽

Yellow Sea ◽

Significant Wave Height ◽

Bohai Sea ◽

The Yellow Sea ◽

Wave Power ◽

Power Flux ◽

Significant Wave ◽

The Bohai Sea

A wave hindcast, covering the period of 1979–2018, was preformed to assess wave energy potential in the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea. The hindcase was carried out using the third generation wave model TOMAWAC with high spatio-temporal resolution (about 1 km and on an hourly basis). Results show that the mean values of significant wave height increase from north to south, and the maximum values are located at the south part of the Yellow Sea with amplitude within 1.6 m. The magnitudes of significant wave height values vary significantly within seasons; they are at a maximum in winter. The wave energy potential was represented by distributions of the wave power flux. The largest values appear in the southeast part of the numerical domain with wave power flux values of 8 kW/m. The wave power flux values are less than 2 kW/m in the Bohai Sea and nearshore areas of the Yellow Sea. The seasonal mean wave power flux was found up to 8 kW/m in the winter and autumn. To investigate the exploitable wave energy, a wave energy event was defined based on the significant wave height (Hs) threshold values of 0.5 m. The wave energy in south part of the Yellow Sea is more steady and intensive than in the other areas. Wave energy in winter is more suitable for harvesting wave energy. Long-term trends of wave power availability suggest that the values of wave power slightly decreased in the 1990s, whereas they have been increasing since 2006.

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