Technical issues in modeling surface-drifter behavior on the East China Sea shelf

Journal of Oceanography

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 161-174

  Kako, Shin'ichiro ^a   Isobe, Atsuhiko ^a   Yoshioka, Shun ^b   Chang, Pil Hun ^c   Matsuno, Takeshi ^d   Kim, Sang Hyun ^e   Lee, Joon Soo ^f  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Meteorological Research Institute   (South Korea)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Jeju National University   (South Korea)

^f National Fisheries Research and Development Institute (NFRDI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

East China Sea; Leeway drift; Orbcomm tracking drifter; Particle tracking model

Indexed keywords

DRIFTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CURRENT; QUIKSCAT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRACKING; TRAJECTORY; WIND FIELD; WIND STRESS; WIND VELOCITY;

EAST CHINA SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 77951761956     PISSN: 09168370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10872-010-0014-z     Document Type: Article

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