Verification of the wind-driven transport in the North Pacific subtropical gyre using gridded wind-stress products

Journal of Oceanography

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 49-60

  Aoki, Kunihiro ^a   Kutsuwada, Kunio ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eastern Gyral; Kuroshio transport; North Pacific subtropical gyre; Numerical weather prediction wind data; Satellite scatterometer wind data; Sverdrup balance

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CURRENT; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; GYRE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; WIND STRESS; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 37849001814     PISSN: 09168370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10872-008-0004-6     Document Type: Article

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