“…In addition, southerly wind-driven upwelling, mixing, and sea surface currents shape the eastward dispersion of low SSS (Lie et al, 2003;Xuan et al, 2012) and nutrients (Gao et al, 2015) into patches rather than a continuous, tongue-like protrusion. south of Kyushu Island, Japan, and has been attributed in part to high Changjiang discharge (Sasaki et al, 2014). The annual maximum of the monthly average discharge of the Changjiang in 2010 occurred in July and was about 65,000 m 3 s 21 (Sasaki et al, 2014), much higher than the July climatological monthly peak of 50,000-52,500 m 3 s 21 (e.g., Moon et al, 2012;Siswanto et al, 2008).…”