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Distribution and Circulation of the Coastal Oyashio Intrusion
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The distribution and circulation of the coastal Oyashio intrusion were examined with a CTD and shipboard ADCP survey conducted in the vicinity of the east coast of Japan in May 1994. The estimate of mixing ratios in the ...
Currents Associated with the Quasi-Stationary Jet Separated from the Kuroshio Extension
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he hydrographic structure of a quasi-stationary jet separated from the Kuroshio Extension, a phenomenon that possibly leads to deepening of the winter mixed layer, is revealed via intensive observations using a ...
ADCP-Referenced Kuroshio and Oyashio Water Transports for North Pacific Intermediate Water Formation*
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The ADCP-referenced geostrophic circulation of the Oyashio and Kuroshio waters in the density range 26.6?27.2 σ? in the Kuroshio?Oyashio interfrontal zone is examined by synoptic observations with a CTD and shipboard ADCP ...
Cold-Core Anticyclonic Eddies South of the Bussol’ Strait in the Northwestern Subarctic Pacific
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Summer hydrographic surveys from 1993 to 1997 in the area south of the Kuril Islands in the northwestern subarctic Pacific showed the existence of anticyclonic eddies south of the Bussol? Strait at almost the same location ...