The Kuroshio Current System as a jet and twin "relative" recirculation gyres embedded in the Sverdrup circulation

Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans

Volumn 45, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 135-164

  Nakano, Hideyuki ^a   Tsujino, Hiroyuki ^a   Furue, Ryo ^b  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Kuroshio current system; Ocean general circulation model (OGCM); Recirculation gyre; Separation; Western boundary current

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTS; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; HYDRODYNAMICS; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); ISOMERS; JETS; LOCATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEPARATION; TROPICS; VISCOSITY; WIND STRESS;

EQUILIBRIUM STATES; GULF STREAMING; HIGH POTENTIAL; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; HORIZONTAL VISCOSITY; KUROSHIO CURRENT; KUROSHIO CURRENT SYSTEM; KUROSHIO EXTENSION; NO-SLIP BOUNDARIES; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (OGCM); OCEAN-GENERAL-CIRCULATION-MODEL; RE-CIRCULATION; RECIRCULATION GYRE; STABILIZING EFFECTS; STREAM FUNCTIONS; SUBTROPICAL GYRES; VISCOUS SUB-LAYER; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT; ZONAL JETS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ANTICYCLONE; CYCLONE; GYRE; JET; OCEAN BASIN; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT; WIND STRESS; ZONAL FLOW;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF STREAM; KUROSHIO CURRENT; KUROSHIO EXTENSION; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 48949098026     PISSN: 03770265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2007.09.002     Document Type: Article

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