Hindcast and predictability of sporadic Kuroshio-water intrusion (kyucho in the Bungo Channel) into the shelf and coastal waters

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Isobe, Atsuhiko ^a   Guo, Xinyu ^a   Takeoka, Hidetaka ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHODS; SEA LEVEL; TIME SERIES;

ANTICYCLONIC EDDIES; ANTICYCLONIC MESOSCALE EDDIES; COASTAL OCEAN; COASTAL OCEAN MODEL; COASTAL WATERS; FINITE VOLUME; FRONTAL WAVES; HINDCASTING; HINDCASTS; HYDROGRAPHIC DATA; KUROSHIO; NUMERICAL MODELS; OCEAN CIRCULATION MODELS; REANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE RISE; WATER INTRUSIONS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CIRCULATION MODELING; COASTAL WATER; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FRONTAL FEATURE; HINDCASTING; HYDROGRAPHY; MESOSCALE EDDY; MODEL TEST; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SEA LEVEL; SHELF DYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TIME SERIES;

BUNGO CHANNEL; JAPAN; KUROSHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 77953557297     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005818     Document Type: Article

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