Interannual and seasonal variations of Kuroshio transport east of Taiwan inferred from 29 years of tide-gauge data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Chang, Y L ^a,b   Oey, L Y ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TIDE GAGES; WIND STRESS;

COUNTER CURRENT; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL FLUCTUATIONS; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; KUROSHIO; LINEAR DYNAMICS; OCEAN VELOCITY; PROPAGATION TIME; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEASONAL FLUCTUATIONS; SEASONAL VARIATION; TIME-SCALES; WESTERN PACIFIC; WIND STRESS CURL;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; COUNTERCURRENT; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEASONAL VARIATION; TIDE GAUGE; TIMESCALE; WIND STRESS; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

KUROSHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; TAIWAN;

EID: 79955016687     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047062     Document Type: Article

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