Stability of the Kuroshio path with respect to glacial sea level lowering

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 392-396

  Lee, Kyung Eun ^a   Lee, Ho Jin ^a   Park, Jae Hun ^b   Chang, Yuan Pin ^c   Ikehara, Ken ^d   Itaki, Takuya ^d   Kwon, Hyun Kyung ^a  

^a Korea Maritime University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

^c NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEA LEVEL; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GEOCHEMICAL PROXIES; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MARINE SEDIMENTS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTAL; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MARINE SEDIMENT; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENT CORE; SHELF BREAK;

EAST CHINA SEA; JAPAN; KUROSHIO CURRENT; OKINAWA TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN; RYUKYU ISLANDS; TOKARA STRAIT;

EID: 84940793785     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1012/grl.50102     Document Type: Article

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