Ensemble numerical forecasts of the sporadic Kuroshio water intrusion (kyucho) into shelf and coastal waters

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 633-644

  Isobe, Atsuhiko ^a   Kako, Shin'Ichiro ^a   Guo, Xinyu ^a   Takeoka, Hidetaka ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Argo; Ensemble forecast; FVCOM; JCOPE2; Kyucho

Indexed keywords

ARGO; ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; FVCOM; JCOPE2; KYUCHO;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COASTAL WATER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; DOWNSCALING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHELF BREAK;

BUNGO CHANNEL; JAPAN; KUROSHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84861092533     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-011-0519-z     Document Type: Article

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