Characteristics of the flows in the Oyashio area off Cape Erimo, Hokkaido, Japan

Journal of Oceanography

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 93-103

  Uehara, Kazuyuki ^a   Miyake, Hideo ^a   Okazaki, Moriyoshi ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Sanyo Techno Marine Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

Direct current measurement; Eddy energy; Kinetic energy; Off Cape Erimo; The Oyashio; Warm core rings

Indexed keywords

CURRENT OBSERVATIONS; KINETIC/EDDY ENERGY; OYASHIO; WARM-CORE RINGS;

JAPAN, HOKKAIDO, CAPE ERIMO;

EID: 0030864043     PISSN: 09168370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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