Variability of the path of the Kuroshio ocean current over the past 25,000 years

Nature

Volumn 392, Issue 6676, 1998, Pages 592-595

  Sawada, Ken ^a,b   Handa, Nobuhiko ^a,c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c AICHI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENTS; GYRES; QUATERNARY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS;

ARTICLE; FLOW RATE; JAPAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEDIMENT; WATER FLOW; WATER TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC, KUROSHIO CURRENT;

EID: 0032499287     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/33391     Document Type: Article

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