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Direct current observations in the Yellow Sea interior are very scarce due to intense fishing and trawling activities. Most previous studies on tides in the area were based on coastal measurements or satellite altimeter sea levels and have not been rigorously compared with direct measurements. In this paper, tidal currents are studied with current profiles from three bottom-moored Sontek Acoustic Doppler Profilers (ADPs) deployed in the southern Yellow Sea in summer of 2001 and 2003. The measured current series were dominated by tidal currents. Maximum velocities are between 40–80 cm/s at the mooring stations. M2 current is the most dominant primary tidal constituent, while MS4 and M4 are the most significant shallow water tides with much smaller amplitudes than the primary tides.
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Supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (No. 2007CB411804) and Special Post-doctorial Research Foundation of Shandong Province (No. 200602002)
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Liu, Z., Hu, D. & Tang, X. Tidal current observation in the southern Yellow Sea in the summers of 2001 and 2003. Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 26, 121–129 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-008-0121-5
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-008-0121-5