PICES SCIENTIFIC REPORT No. 62, 2021 Oceanography of the Yellow Sea and

Northerly winds induce an anti-cyclonic gyre in the eastern half of the YS with the northward Yellow Sea Warm Current (YSWC) along the western side of the Yellow Sea Trough, the southward West Korea Coastal Current (WKCC) at the eastern part of the YS (Fig. [...] 1.1.3a), and a cyclonic gyre in the western YS with the northward YSWC along the western side of Yellow Sea Trough and the southwestward and southeastward Chinese Coastal Current (CCC) over the western part of the YS (Fig. [...] Chinese coastal current The coastal current flows year-round along the 40- to 50-m isobaths from the western side of the Bohai Strait to the mouth of the Changjiang River in the western YS (Su, 1998; Zang et al., 2003). [...] (2003) claimed that the WKCC flows toward the south approximately along the 40- to 50-m isobaths on the eastern side of the YS, turns to the east near 34°N, and enters the Jeju Strait along the northern edge of the thermohaline front. [...] Typically, there are three currents in the Taiwan Strait (Hu et al., 2010): the Chinese Coastal Current (CCC) and the Kuroshio branch are in the western and eastern Taiwan Strait, respectively, and the extension of the SCS water located in the western and central Taiwan Strait.