Interannual variability of the Kuroshio transport passing through the 137°E meridian in an OGCM related to the north pacific windstress

Journal of Oceanography

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 25-35

  Wakata, Yoshinobu ^a   Setou, Takashi ^b   Kaneko, Ikuo ^c   Uchida, Hiroshi ^c   Imawaki, Shiro ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MITSUBISHI RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Interannual variability; Kuroshio volume transport; Quasi geostrophic vorticity equation; Rossby wave

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; ROSSBY WAVE; WIND STRESS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 33645019201     PISSN: 09168370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10872-006-0029-7     Document Type: Article

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