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Isobe et al. 2002
Isobe, A., Ando, M., Watanabe, T., Senjyu, T., Sugihara, S. and Manda, A. (2002). Freshwater and temperature transports through the Tsushima-Korea Straits. Journal of Geophysical Research 107. doi: 10.1029/2000JC000702. issn: 0148-0227.

Using acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) and conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) data sets obtained from 1991 to 1993, volume, freshwater, and temperature transports through the Tsushima-Korea Straits are estimated. To remove tidal currents contained in raw ADCP data, tidal currents are calculated using harmonic constants obtained by ADCP surveys from 1998 to 1999. The annual mean and range of the volume transport through the straits are 2.4 Sv (1 Sv = 106 m3/s) and 0.8 Sv, respectively. These values are consistent with those of previous studies. The annually averaged freshwater transport is 33 ¿ 106 kg/s, which is the same as the total river discharge around the Yellow and East China Seas. This suggests that the total river discharge and freshwater transport through the Tsushima-Korea Straits are the prominent two components in the freshwater budget, averaged annually in the Yellow and East China Seas. The annually averaged temperature transport through the Tsushima-Korea Straits is 0.17 PW.

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Keywords
Oceanography, General, Continental shelf processes, Oceanography, General, Diurnal, seasonal, and annual cycles, Oceanography, General, Marginal and semienclosed seas
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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