Rapid water temperature variations at the northern shelf of the Yellow Sea

During summer, there is great spatial variability in bottom water temperature on the northern shelf of Yellow Sea. This associated with a thermal front along shelf. Oscillatory currents from semidiurnal and fortnightly period tides transport masses laterally, resulting oscillations at fixed positions, sometimes large amplitudes. Temperature variations, as demonstrated present work, can cause damage to bottom-cultured scallops. In particular, scallop sea ranching area near Zhangzidao Island, such are evident late summer. We constructed index aggregated current model results identifying how temporal during summer varies space. information be useful both selecting favorable areas designing laboratory stress experiments aquaculture candidate species.