Validation of the Kuroshio Current System in the dual-domain Pacific Ocean Model framework

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 105, Issue , 2012, Pages 102-124

  Tseng, Yu Heng ^a   Shen, Mao Lin ^a   Jan, Sen ^b   Dietrich, David E ^c   Chiang, Chia Ping ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c AcuSea Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; CIRCULATION PATTERNS; COUNTER CURRENT; EAST CHINA SEA; FOURTH-ORDER; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; KUROSHIO; KUROSHIO CURRENT SYSTEM; MARGINAL SEAS; MODEL RESULTS; NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; RECIRCULATION GYRE; REGIONAL CIRCULATION; SEAMLESS COUPLING; SIMULATION FRAMEWORK; SPONGE LAYERS; STRONG CURRENTS; VERTICAL CURRENT; VOLUME TRANSPORT; WESTERN PACIFIC;

AQUACULTURE; OCEANOGRAPHY;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; CROSS SECTION; EDDY; GYRE; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SPONGE; VOLUME TRANSPORT;

EAST CHINA SEA; KUROSHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; TAIWAN;

EID: 84872600247     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2012.04.003     Document Type: Article

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