Numerical study on the Oyashio water pathways in the Kuroshio-Oyashio confluence

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1174-1196

  Mitsudera, Humio ^a,b   Taguchi, Bunmei ^b   Yoshikawa, Yasushi ^c   Nakamura, Hirohiko ^d   Waseda, Takuji ^b   Qu, Tangdong ^e  

^a Japan Marine Sci & Technol Ctr   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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

^d KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STORMS; WATER;

MIXED WATER REGION (MWR); WATER PATHWAYS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

MIXING; NUMERICAL METHOD; OCEANIC CURRENT; PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY; WATER MASS;

KUROSHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 1842780312     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2004)034<1174:NSOTOW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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