Interannual variability of the Kuroshio transport in response to the wind stress field over the North Pacific: Its relation to the path variation south of Japan

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 101, Issue C6, 1996, Pages 14057-14071

  Akitomo, Kazunori ^a   Ooi, Michihiro ^a   Awaji, Toshiyuki ^a   Kutsuwada, Kunio ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT VELOCITY; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; KUROSHIO; WIND STRESS;

PACIFIC, (NORTH);

EID: 0029851863     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96JC01000     Document Type: Article

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