Abstract: About 4.5 million wind data observations reported from ships during 1961?83 are used to elucidate the spatial structure of interannual variations of the wind stress over the western North Pacific (0°?0°N, 120°E?170°W). ...

Abstract: A two-layer numerical model driven by the observed wind stress compiled by K. Kutsuwada and T. Teramoto is used to study the seasonal variation in volume transport of the Kuroshio south of Japan. The authors focus on the ...

Abstract: Time series data from the Tropical Atmosphere?Ocean (TAO) array of moored buoys and data from other sources are used to document the oceanic dynamical response to intraseasonal (periods centered near 60 days) wind stress ...