The Kuroshio Extension: A leading mechanism for the seasonal sea-level variability along the west coast of Japan

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 667-672

  Ma, Chao ^a   Yang, Jiayan ^a,b   Wu, Dexing ^a   Lin, Xiaopei ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Japan East Sea; Kelvin waves; Kuroshio Extension; Rossby waves

Indexed keywords

EARTH SIMULATORS; EAST COAST; JAPAN/EAST SEAS; KELVIN WAVES; KUROSHIO EXTENSION; LOCAL FORCING; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; PRINCETON OCEAN MODEL; REMOTE FORCING; ROSSBY WAVE; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SEASONAL CHANGES; TIME-SCALES; WEST COAST;

EXPERIMENTS; GRAVITY WAVES; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEA LEVEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COASTAL ZONES;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; KELVIN WAVE; MODEL VALIDATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OPEN OCEAN; ROSSBY WAVE; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEASONAL VARIATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WIND STRESS;

JAPAN; KOREA STRAIT; KUROSHIO EXTENSION; PACIFIC OCEAN; TSUSHIMA STRAIT;

EID: 77954814360     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-009-0239-9     Document Type: Article

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