Outflow of suspended materials from the Changjiang River mouth

Abstract

Typical wind fields in winter and summer were applied in a three-dimensional model for simulating the wind-driven current fields in the study region 27.0 °N to 34.5 °N, 120.0 °E to 126.0 °E. Data from three cruises in 1993 and 1994 were analyzed to obtain the horizontal and vertical structures of total suspended matter (TSM) there. Based on this study, a numerical method was derived to show that it is in winter, not summer, that the suspended matter (SM) is carried out from the mouth of the Changjiang River to the deep ocean, and yield some other important conclusions.