Near bottom currents and their relation to the transport in the Kuroshio Extension

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 16, 2004, Pages

  Yoshikawa, Yasushi ^a   Church, John A ^b,c   Uchida, Hiroshi ^a   White, Neil J ^b,c  

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

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c ANTARCTIC CLIMATE AND ECOSYSTEMS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ENGINEERING; COASTAL ZONES; FLOW OF WATER; GEOPHYSICS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

BAROTROPIC FLOW; CURRENT STRUCTURES; KUROSHIO EXTENSION; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

BOTTOM CURRENT; CURRENT VELOCITY; OCEANIC CURRENT;

KUROSHIO EXTENSION; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

EID: 7044286385     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020068     Document Type: Article

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