The Distribution of Dissolved Aluminum in the Yellow and East China Seas
Water samples containing dissolved aluminum were collected from the Yellow and East China Seas in October-November 2000. The average concentrations of dissolved Al in the Yellow Sea (YS) and East China Sea (ECS) were 0.042 and 0.056 μ molL-1, respectively. The concentration of dissolved aluminum decreased gradually across the continental shelf. The lower concentrations appeared in the YS cold water center and in the bottom layer at the shelf edge of the ECS, where they were 0.016 and 0.011 μmolL-1, respectively. The distribution of dissolved A1 was controlled by physical mixing processes rather than biological uptake processes. The impact of different water masses along the PN transect was calculated based on the mass balance model. The results show that the impact of the Changjiang River was mainly concentrated on the coastal area and the top thermocline water on the ECS shelf, where the impact percentage decreased from 12.6% to 1.1% in the surface water, while the contribution of the Kuroshio water was dominant on the ECS shelf in this survey, increasing from 77.6% to 97.8% along the PN transect from the Changjiang River Estuary to the Ryukyu Islands. It is concluded that aluminum can serve as a proper tracer for studying the impact of Changjiang terrestrial matter on the ECS shelf water.
作 者： LI Jianbing REN Jingling ZHANG Jing LIU Sumei 作者单位： LI Jianbing,REN Jingling,LIU Sumei(Key Laboratory of Marine Chemistry Theory and Technology, Ministry of Education, Ocean University of China,Qingdao 266100, P. R. China)ZHANG Jing(State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, P. R. China)
刊 名： 中国海洋大学学报（英文版） ISTIC 英文刊名： JOURNAL OF OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA 年，卷(期)： 2008 7(1) 分类号： P7 关键词： dissolved aluminum East China Sea Yellow Sea distribution Changjiang