This book reviews the research in various fields of oceanography on the responses of the East Japan Sea to climate change. The uniqueness of the East Japan Sea comes from the rapid and amplified response to climate change, which includes long-terms trends of physical and chemical parameters at a rate that almost doubles or even higher the global rate. This book aims to provide in an organized way the results from the previously published knowledge but also to introduce an updated view of the research recently carried out. The book is divided into several parts that comprise the physical, chemical, biological, and geological aspects of the region and fisheries. This book is made for researchers and students working on climate variability as well as for the oceanography community working on world’s marginal seas. The research presented in this work will also benefit to researchers from other fields such as social scientists and environmentalists, and also policy makers.
Author(s): Kyung-Il Chang, Chang-Ik Zhang, Chul Park, Dong-Jin Kang, Se-Jong Ju, Sang-Hoon Lee, Mark Wimbush (eds.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: XVI, 460
Tags: Oceanography; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Marine & Freshwater Sciences; Sedimentology
Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
General Introduction....Pages 1-31
Forcings....Pages 33-57
Water Masses and Their Long-Term Variability....Pages 59-86
Circulation....Pages 87-126
High-Frequency Variability: Basin-Scale Oscillations and Internal Waves/Tides....Pages 127-148
Dissolved Oxygen and Nutrients....Pages 149-168
Natural and Anthropogenic Carbon Cycling....Pages 169-189
Uranium Series Radionuclides....Pages 191-199
Distribution of Chemical Elements in Sediments....Pages 201-215
Phytoplankton and Primary Production....Pages 217-245
Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemical Processes in the Ulleung Basin....Pages 247-296
Zooplankton....Pages 297-326
Fish and Fisheries....Pages 327-345
Benthic Animals....Pages 347-372
Marine Mammals....Pages 373-387
Physiography and Late Quaternary Sedimentation....Pages 389-414
Crustal Structure and Tectonic Evolution of the East Sea....Pages 415-430
Stratigraphy....Pages 431-450
Back Matter....Pages 451-460
