Ensemble forecast of the Kuroshio meandering

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 110, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1-14

  Miyazawa, Yasumasa ^a   Yamane, Shozo ^a,b   Guo, Xinyu ^a,c   Yamagata, Toshio ^a,d  

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

^b CHIBA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT MEANDERING; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PREDICTION; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT;

KUROSHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 28844445722     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JC002426     Document Type: Article

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