Numerical modeling of the Japan Sea: preliminary results

The numerical modeling of the Japan Sea seasonal variation was performed by means of the regional ocean circulation model designed in the Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics (Novosibirsk, Russia) with a simple data assimilation scheme. The aim was to get a better understanding of the Japan Sea dynamics and thermodynamics on the basis of an available GDEM dataset of climatological temperature and salinity annual variations. This paper outlines the model capability to reproduce most of the known circulation features and provides a resulting view of deep water circulation.