Figure 1
Map of the study area and the mooring configuration. (a) The region of the mud belt between the mouth of Changjiang River and the northern Taiwan Strait along the coast of Zhejiang and Fujiang Provinces of China. At each sampling station box core was taken. At Sta. G1, B4, and G2, gravity cores were taken successfully. Sta. M1 denotes the general location for the sediment trap mooring, wave/weather-station buoy, and the short shore-normal transect. The circled numbers marked regional current systems (shown as dashed arrows, blue for cold water, red for warm water) that affect the study area: 1. Zhe-Min Coastal Current, 2. Kuroshio Branch Current, and 3. South China Sea Warm Current. (b) Schematic plot of the sediment trap mooring that was configured with (in ascending order) an XR-420 (CTD with turbidity sensor) and LISST-100 × (Laser Particle Analyzer), a non-sequential sediment trap, and a downward looking ADCP (Aquadopp). All digitally acquired data presented have been synchronized on hourly intervals. The base map in (a) was plotted by GMT 5.1.2 software (http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu) using the data from Taiwan’s Ocean Data Bank (http:/www.odb.ntu.edu.tw) with a grid resolution of 200 m. Details of the map including the silhouette of the mud belt were later added in PowerPoint.
