# Introduction to PO (Coastal Ocean and Semi-enclosed Ocean) > Instructor: Yiing-Jang Yang [time=April 22] ## Coastal process include: 1. Effective of rivers 1. Coastal upwelling: topography, stratification, shoreline 1. Upwelling could induce red tide 1. Shelf waves: costal trapped wave, e.g. seiches and Kelvin wave 1. Seiche induced by local storm (typhoon or strong surge) 1. Edge wave: trapped wave along shoreline and induced by for foreign storm ### coastal upwelling Ekman transport: to the RHS of the current. Thus, a upwelling is needed for continuity ### red tide Upwelling or river discharge provided rich (nutrient-filled) water. Lots of phytoplakton grow ### Rip current - may reach 3m/s - induced by braking wave (converge of longshore current) - Structure: feeder $\rightarrow$ neck, head $\rightarrow$ escape, (mushroom shaped) - associated with dirty water (sand...) > Instructor: Yiing-Jang Yang [time=April 29] ### Shoreline Erosion More intense in the cape area ### Semi-enclosed Sea #### Artic Ocean > $9.5\times 10^6$ km^2^, 1/3 shallow water **Bering Strait**: to Pacific, narrow (85 km) and shallow (45 m) **Fram Strait**: to Atlantic, wide (450 km) and deep (3000 m) **Lomonosov Ridge**: at the central (Canadian Basin in the Pacific side, Eurasian Basin in the Atlantic side) * Covered by ice (3~5 m; max: 10~20 m), 20% open water in the summer * <font color="#f00"> latent heat $\ll$ sensible heat </font>(LH: windspeed & humidity; SH: temperature difference) * Salinity: 2~20 psu #### Mediterranean Sea **Stait of Gibraltar**: to Atlantic, wide 12 km, deep 300 m. * Sill in the central (400 m in depth, shallowest) * Basin depth: 2500 m * Evaporte > rainfall * **Model water**: 13.5 ℃, 38.5 psu (warm and salty) * Mistral and cyclonic circulation * deep convection, downwelling (5 cm/s), upwelling (1 cm/s) #### Black Sea **Bosphorus Strait**: to Aegean Sea, narrow (1 km) and shallow (60 m) * Mediterranean water flow in Black Sea in lower layer; Black Sea flow out in upper laye * Black Sea was a fresh lake at last ice age #### Japan Sea / East Sea #### South China Sea **Luzong Strait**: width 300 km, depth 3000 m * Transition in May and September * summer flows from south to north; winter flows from north to south * positive wind stress curl (pumpimg); clockwise, sinking * monsoon cause tilting ![Screenshot 2024-05-29 at 04.08.40](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/SyNCKhmNR.png =30%x)