A Yellow Sea Monitoring Platform and Its Scientific Applications
The Yellow Sea is one of the most productive continental shelves in the world. This large marine ecosystem is experiencing an epochal change in water temperature, stratification, nutrients, and subsequently in ecological diversity. Research-oriented monitoring of these changes requires a sustainable...
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| author | Yong Sun Kim Chan Joo Jang Chan Joo Jang Jae Hoon Noh Jae Hoon Noh Kyung-Tae Kim Jae-Il Kwon Yongchim Min Jongmin Jeong Jaeik Lee In-Ki Min Jae-Seol Shim Do-Seong Byun Jinkwon Kim Jin-Yong Jeong |
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| description | The Yellow Sea is one of the most productive continental shelves in the world. This large marine ecosystem is experiencing an epochal change in water temperature, stratification, nutrients, and subsequently in ecological diversity. Research-oriented monitoring of these changes requires a sustainable, multi-disciplinary approach. For this purpose, the Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST) constructed the Socheongcho Ocean Research Station (S-ORS), a steel-framed tower-type platform, in the central Yellow Sea about 50 km off the western coast of the Korean Peninsula. This station is equipped with about forty sensors for interdisciplinary oceanographic observations. Since its construction in 2014, this station has continuously conducted scientific observations and provided qualified time series: physical oceanographic variables such as temperature, salinity, sea level pressure, wave, and current; biogeochemical variables such as chlorophyll-a, photosynthetically active radiation, and total suspended particles; atmospheric variables including air temperature, wind, greenhouse gasses, and air particles including black carbon. A prime advantage is that this platform has provided stable facilities including a wet lab where scientists can stay and experiment on in situ water samples. Several studies are in process to understand and characterize the evolution of environmental signals, including air-sea interaction, marine ecosystems, wave detection, and total suspended particles in the central Yellow Sea. This paper provides an overview of the research facilities, maintenance, observations, scientific achievements, and next steps of the S-ORS with highlighting this station as an open lab for interdisciplinary collaboration on multiscale process studies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b5490240d82a4f1b8d15a25ba839b27e2022-12-21T22:31:12ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Marine Science2296-77452019-10-01610.3389/fmars.2019.00601434087A Yellow Sea Monitoring Platform and Its Scientific ApplicationsYong Sun Kim0Chan Joo Jang1Chan Joo Jang2Jae Hoon Noh3Jae Hoon Noh4Kyung-Tae Kim5Jae-Il Kwon6Yongchim Min7Jongmin Jeong8Jaeik Lee9In-Ki Min10Jae-Seol Shim11Do-Seong Byun12Jinkwon Kim13Jin-Yong Jeong14Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Busan, South KoreaKorea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Busan, South KoreaUniversity of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South KoreaKorea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Busan, South KoreaUniversity of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South KoreaKorea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Busan, South KoreaKorea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Busan, South KoreaKorea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Busan, South KoreaKorea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Busan, South KoreaKorea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Busan, South KoreaKorea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Busan, South KoreaKorea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Busan, South KoreaKorea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Agency, Busan, South KoreaKorea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Agency, Busan, South KoreaKorea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Busan, South KoreaThe Yellow Sea is one of the most productive continental shelves in the world. This large marine ecosystem is experiencing an epochal change in water temperature, stratification, nutrients, and subsequently in ecological diversity. Research-oriented monitoring of these changes requires a sustainable, multi-disciplinary approach. For this purpose, the Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST) constructed the Socheongcho Ocean Research Station (S-ORS), a steel-framed tower-type platform, in the central Yellow Sea about 50 km off the western coast of the Korean Peninsula. This station is equipped with about forty sensors for interdisciplinary oceanographic observations. Since its construction in 2014, this station has continuously conducted scientific observations and provided qualified time series: physical oceanographic variables such as temperature, salinity, sea level pressure, wave, and current; biogeochemical variables such as chlorophyll-a, photosynthetically active radiation, and total suspended particles; atmospheric variables including air temperature, wind, greenhouse gasses, and air particles including black carbon. A prime advantage is that this platform has provided stable facilities including a wet lab where scientists can stay and experiment on in situ water samples. Several studies are in process to understand and characterize the evolution of environmental signals, including air-sea interaction, marine ecosystems, wave detection, and total suspended particles in the central Yellow Sea. This paper provides an overview of the research facilities, maintenance, observations, scientific achievements, and next steps of the S-ORS with highlighting this station as an open lab for interdisciplinary collaboration on multiscale process studies.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2019.00601/fullSocheongcho Ocean Research Station (S-ORS)multi-disciplinary observationlong-term time seriessteel-framed platformcontinental shelfOceanSITES |
| spellingShingle | Yong Sun Kim Chan Joo Jang Chan Joo Jang Jae Hoon Noh Jae Hoon Noh Kyung-Tae Kim Jae-Il Kwon Yongchim Min Jongmin Jeong Jaeik Lee In-Ki Min Jae-Seol Shim Do-Seong Byun Jinkwon Kim Jin-Yong Jeong A Yellow Sea Monitoring Platform and Its Scientific Applications Frontiers in Marine Science Socheongcho Ocean Research Station (S-ORS) multi-disciplinary observation long-term time series steel-framed platform continental shelf OceanSITES |
| title | A Yellow Sea Monitoring Platform and Its Scientific Applications |
| title_full | A Yellow Sea Monitoring Platform and Its Scientific Applications |
| title_fullStr | A Yellow Sea Monitoring Platform and Its Scientific Applications |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Yellow Sea Monitoring Platform and Its Scientific Applications |
| title_short | A Yellow Sea Monitoring Platform and Its Scientific Applications |
| title_sort | yellow sea monitoring platform and its scientific applications |
| topic | Socheongcho Ocean Research Station (S-ORS) multi-disciplinary observation long-term time series steel-framed platform continental shelf OceanSITES |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2019.00601/full |
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