Roles of mesoscale eddies in the Kuroshio paths

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2203-2222

  Miyazawa, Yasumasa ^a   Guo, Xinyu ^a,b   Yamagata, Toshio ^a,c  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; METEOROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANTICYCLONIC EDDY; CIRCULATION MODELS; SUBTROPICAL GYRE SYSTEMS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ANTICYCLONE; GYRE; MESOSCALE EDDY; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; VOLUME TRANSPORT;

KUROSHIO CURRENT; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

EID: 8744283591     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2004)034<2203:ROMEIT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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