Kuroshio temporal and spatial variations South of Japan determined from inverted echo sounder measurements

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 107, Issue 9, 2002, Pages

  Book, Jeffrey W ^a,b   Wimbush, Mark ^a   Imawaki, Shiro ^c   Ichikawa, Hiroshi ^d   Uchida, Hiroshi ^c,e   Kinoshita, Hideki ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

^f JAPAN COAST GUARD ACADEMY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gravest empirical mode; Inverted echo sounder; Kuroshio; Meander transport; Temperature transport

Indexed keywords

CURRENT MEANDERING; CURRENT VELOCITY; ECHO SOUNDER; HEAT FLOW; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VOLUME TRANSPORT;

KUROSHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0037107225     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001jc000795     Document Type: Article

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