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current toward southward exists in the sea area off Oppama.

Variation =
Case1 - Case.?
*MOO
Case.?
Variation of Dissolved Oxygen (%) Variation of Phytoplankton (2)
Figure 8: Horizontal distributions of dissolved oxygen and phytoplankton variations at Im below
the sea surface in August 27-29, 1996
The size of the VLFS, which is expected to be constructed in the future, is perhaps much larger than that
of the Mega-Float model. Further, the extent of the impacts depends on depth of the sea area, speed of
the residual current, activities of marine lives, and so forth. Therefore, as future assignments. the
impacts of the VLFS should be examined with sufficient caution on the size of the floating structurc and
the characteristic of the sea area.

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