A climatological view of the Kuroshio/Oyashio system East of Japan

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 2575-2589

  Qu, T ^a   Mitsudera, H ^a   Qiu, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; SURFACE PHENOMENA;

TIME-AVERAGED STRUCTURES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC FRONT; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

JAPAN; KUROSHIO CURRENT; OYASHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0035440416     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2001)031<2575:ACVOTK>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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