Kuroshio path variations south of Japan: Bimodality as a self-sustained internal oscillation

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 2124-2137

  Qiu, B ^a   Miao, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIMODALITY; OSCILLATION; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

KUROSHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033801044     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2000)030<2124:KPVSOJ>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. Kuroshio path variation south of Japan 1. Barotropic inflow-outflow model
2. Kuroshio path variation south of Japan: Stability of the paths in a multiple equilibrium regime
3. On the influence of frictional parameterization in wind-driven circulation models
4. A model of the inertial recirculation driven by potential vorticity anomalies
5. Dissipative dynamics of western boundary currents
6. Bimodality of the Kuroshio
7. A numerical study of the Kuroshio south of Japan
8. On the relationship between tropical and North Pacific sea surface variations
9. Upper-ocean thermal variations in the North Pacific during 1970-91
10. Matrix-dependent prolongations and restrictions in a blackbox multigrid solver
11. Geographical and seasonal distributions of Brunt-Vaisala frequency and rossby radii in the North Pacific and North Atlantic
12. Lowered ADCP development and use in WOCE
13. Energy analysis of open regions of turbulent flows-mean eddy energetics of a numerical ocean circulation experiment
14. Is the North Pacific in Sverdrup balance along 24°N?
15. Normal monthly wind stress over the world ocean with error estimates
16. The northern recirculation gyre of the Gulf Stream
17. On the generation of mesoscale eddies and their contribution to the oceanic general circulation. I. A preliminary numerical experiment
18. On the vacillation of an unstable baroclinic wave field in an eddy-resolving model of the oceanic circulation
19. Three-dimensional structure of the wind-driven circulation in the subtropical North Pacific
20. Dynamics of the Kuroshio/Oyashio current system using eddy-resolving models of the North Pacific Ocean
21. Inertial recirculation in a β-plane corner
22. Multiple equilibria, periodic, and aperiodic solutions in a wind-driven, double-gyre, shallow-water model
23. Sea level variations around the Nansei Islands and the large meander in the Kuroshio south of central Japan
24. Sea level variations at the Izu Islands and typical stable paths of the Kuroshio
25. Transition processes between the three typical paths of the Kuroshio
26. Variations of current path, velocity, and volume transport of the Kuroshio in relation with the large meander
27. Statistical estimation of isotherms indicative of the Kuroshio axis
28. The influence of stratification on the inertial recirculation
29. Zonal penetration scale of midlatitude oceanic jets
30. An interpretation of the bimodal character of the stable Kuroshio path
31. Phenomenology of the low-frequency variability in a reduced-gravity, quasigeostrophic double-gyre model
32. On the interaction between the subtropical and the equatorial oceans: The subtropical cell
33. Interdecadal variability of the Pacific Ocean: Model response to observed heat flux and wind stress anomalies
34. Decadal climate variability in the North Pacific during the recent decades
35. Description of the Kuroshio meander in 1975-1980-large meander of the Kuroshio in 1975-1980
36. Variation of the Kuroshio south of Japan
37. Interannual variability in the mid-and low-latitude western North Pacific
38. Relation between the geostrophic flux of the Kuroshio in the eastern China Sea and its large meanders in south of Japan
39. A numerical experiment on the path dynamics of the Kuroshio with reference to the formation of the large meander path south of Japan
40. Finite-difference formulation of a world ocean model
41. Time variation of the Kuroshio south of Japan
42. Dynamics of the Gulf Stream/deep western boundary current crossover. Part I: Entrainment and recirculation
43. Dynamics of the Gulf Stream/deep western boundary current crossover. Part II: Low-frequency internal oscillations
44. Characteristics of the flow of the Kuroshio south of Japan
45. Recent observed interdecadal climate changes in the Northern Hemisphere
46. On the formation of the Kuroshio meander and its relationship to the large-scale ocean circulation
47. Multiple deep gyres of the western North Pacific: A WOCE section along 149°E
48. Eddy energy in the ocean
49. Geometry-forced coherent structures as a model of the Kuroshio large meander
50. Dynamics of the Kuroshio large meander-Barotropic model
51. Decadal changes in the mode waters in the midlatitude North Pacific
52. Dynamics of the Kuroshio large meander: Two-layer model