Abstract: We carried out a numerical experiment to study the velocity field of a two-dimensional tidal current in a simple model basin with a narrow strait. It was found that the tide-induced transient eddy (TITE) originated from ...

Abstract: To study the relation between the water-volume exchange rates Ev and the salt-exchange rates Ez of the Akashi and the Naruto Straits in the Seto Inland Sea of Japan, we use an observed salt distribution near the straits, ...

Abstract: Low-salinity water masses were occasionally observed in spring and summer on the surface of the Kuroshio, south of Japan. Many of the masses were accompanied by excessive discharge of fresh water from major rivers in ...

Abstract: The barotropic response of the shelf and coastal regions south of Japan to short-term variations in the Kuroshio was studied numerically with an inflow?outflow model. The onshore?offshore movements of the stream axis of ...

Abstract: In order to investigate the mechanism of tidal exchange through a strait, we numerically track the Lagrangian movement of water particles over a full cycle of the M2 tide. As a result, it is found that the spatially rapid ...

Abstract: We studied numerically the frontogenesis of shallow sea fronts such as are observed in the Kii Channel, Japan, during winter, under conditions of sea surface cooling and buoyancy influx from coast and open ocean. Numerical ...