Spatio-Temporal Variability of Sea Level in the East China Sea

2015 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
pp. 40-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guodong Wang ◽  
Jiancheng Kang ◽  
Guodong Yan ◽  
Guoqi Han ◽  
Qinchen Han
Radiocarbon ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-99
Author(s):  
Daidu Fan ◽  
Shuai Shang ◽  
George Burr

ABSTRACTWe describe two coastal paleosols recovered in sediment cores from the Oujiang Delta, Southeast China. These provide useful benchmarks for past sea level change on the East China Sea coast. Radiocarbon (14C) dates on charcoal and plant matter show that one formed during Marine Isotope Stage 3 (MIS 3) and was exposed for perhaps 20 ka, during the Last Glacial Maximum. The other formed in the Early Holocene and was briefly exposed, during a period of fluctuating sea level. Similar paleosols have been described from the Changjiang (Yangtze) Delta, and at many other sites from the East China Sea. The MIS 3 paleosol records a regional relative sea level of about –27 m at the end of MIS 3. While this value is consistent with other paleo sea level estimates for the East China Sea region, it is much higher than predicted by eustatic sea level estimates.


2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 21-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Wang ◽  
Kexiu Liu ◽  
Dongmei Qi ◽  
Zhigang Gao ◽  
Wenjing Fan ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Yang ◽  
Yong Li ◽  
Meixiang Chen

<p>Typhoon-induced storm surges and waves are highly related with typhoon track and associated wind stresses and atmospheric pressures at sea surface. The effects of binary interaction may alter typhoon tracks and even forward speed, which might influence waves and surge heights in the ocean. In the present study, we execute a series of numerical experiments to investigate how isolated and binary typhoons would impact the ocean waves and generated surges offshore and nearshore. The responses of binary typhoons to sea level rise and land subsidence are also discussed. The Typhoon Tembin and Typhoon Bolaven influenced the East China Sea with equivalent intensity of tropical storm and Category 2, respectively, on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale. The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model is utilized to hindcast the layered wind and atmospheric pressure fields above sea/land surface. Two synthetic scenarios isolating these individual typhoons are designed to investigate the potential impacts of the binary-interacted typhoons. By coupling with the SCHISM–WWMIII modelling system, the corresponding surge–tide–wave processes are solved and validated with measurements at tidal gauge and wave buoy stations. At the same time, The spatial-varied future relative sea level rise (RSLR) by the end of the century is projected from satellite altimeter data-based sea level analysis and is adjusted for the influence of the Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) using the ICE-6G/VM5a model. The results indicate that the surge and wave heights induced by these two typhoons were not exacerbated significantly, as the hours influencing the Yellow Sea by Typhoon Tembin were about 30 hours later than Typhoon Bolaven. We also present the spatial distribution of nonlinear responses of storm surge induced extreme sea levels to RSLR, implicating the regions of exacerbation and attenuation, respectively, due to future sea level trend. The present study helps identifying distribution patterns by binary-interacted typhoons and enhancing assessment accuracy of potential coastal hazards and flood risk.</p>


2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 2599-2610 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Tanaka

Abstract. A meteotsunami hit southwest Kyushu on 25 February 2009, with an estimated maximum amplitude of 290 cm, which was higher than that recorded for the 1979 Nagasaki event. This study investigated mesoscale meteorological systems over the East China Sea during the time leading up to the February 2009 event using a Weather Research and Forecast model. The disturbance in the sea-level pressure originated from a gravity wave over southeastern China. The sea-level pressure disturbance observed and modelled over the East China Sea had its source over the southeastern China mountains and was then propagated by a jet stream toward western Japan with the help of both wave-duct and wave-CISK (conditional instability of the second kind) mechanisms. Two synoptic systems supported the momentum convergence and the formation of band-shaped unstable layers in the mid-troposphere. The high-latitude trough extended from eastern Siberia and there was subtropical high pressure over the western Pacific Ocean. The phase speed of the atmospheric wave was as high as 25–30 m s−1, corresponding to the phase speed of long ocean waves on the East China Sea. Improvements in determining the amplitude and timing of the disturbance remain for future work.


2016 ◽  
Vol 154 ◽  
pp. 172-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanfang Li ◽  
Juncheng Zuo ◽  
Qing Lu ◽  
Hua Zhang ◽  
Meixiang Chen

2000 ◽  
Vol 27 (23) ◽  
pp. 3893-3896 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazumasa Oguri ◽  
Eiji Matsumoto ◽  
Yoshiki Saito ◽  
Makio C. Honda ◽  
Naomi Harada ◽  
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