On the eddy-Kuroshio interaction: Evolution of the mesoscale eddy

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 107, Issue 8, 2002, Pages

  Waseda, Takuji ^a   Mitsudera, Humio ^a   Taguchi, Bunmei ^b   Yoshikawa, Yashushi ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticyclonic eddy; Assimilation; Frontal geostrophy; Kuroshio meander; TOPEX Poseidon

Indexed keywords

CURRENT MEANDERING; MESOSCALE EDDY; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; TOPEX-POSEIDON; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

KUROSHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0037104868     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000jc000756     Document Type: Article

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