An oceanic current against the wind: How does Taiwan Island steer warm water into the East China Sea?

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2563-2569

  Yang, Jiayan ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF WATER; FRICTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE GRADIENT; WIND STRESS;

BOUNDARY CURRENT LAYER DYNAMICS; FLOW DIRECTION; FORCING MECHANISM; KUROSHIO FLOW; MOMENTUM EQUATION; OCEAN MODEL;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

COUNTERCURRENT; FRICTION; OCEANIC CURRENT; PRESSURE GRADIENT; WARM WATER; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT; WIND STRESS;

ASIA; EAST CHINA SEA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; PACIFIC OCEAN; TAIWAN STRAIT;

EID: 36348956139     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO3134.1     Document Type: Article

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