Eddies and the Kuroshio between Luzon and Northeastern Taiwan: Integration of In Situ Observations and Remote Sensing Data

Abstract

The major goal of the project was to characterize variability of the Kuroshio east of Taiwan and to understand (1) how this variability is related to variability in the upstream region, where the North Equatorial Current bifurcates forming the northward-flowing Kuroshio and the southward-flowing Mindanao Current and (2) how westward-propagating mesoscale eddies that arrive along Taiwan from the North Pacific ocean interior shape Kuroshio variability. The project's analysis and data integrations will help establish the advective versus the eddy-driven contributions to Kuroshio variability east of Taiwan.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2016
Accession Number
AD1022906

Entities

People

  • Magdalena Andres

Organizations

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Altimetry
  • East China Sea
  • Landforms
  • Low Pass Filters
  • Measurement
  • North Pacific Ocean
  • Observation
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Remote Sensing
  • Ridges
  • Sonar
  • Topography
  • Transport Ships
  • Travel Time
  • Underwater Acoustics

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