Significance of high-frequency wind forcing in modelling the Kuroshio

Journal of Oceanography

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 539-548

  Waseda, Takuji ^a,d   Mitsudera, Humio ^b   Taguchi, Bunmei ^a   Kutsuwada, Kunio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Kuroshio meander; QuikSCAT; Shikoku recirculation gyre

Indexed keywords

MODELING; OCEANIC CURRENT; WIND FORCING;

KUROSHIO CURRENT; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

EID: 24144489167     PISSN: 09168370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10872-005-0061-z     Document Type: Article

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