Seasonal cycle of volume transport through Kerama Gap revealed by a 20-year global HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model reanalysis

Abstract

The temporal variability of volume transport from the North Pacific Ocean to the East China Sea (ECS) through Kerama Gap(between Okinawa Island and Miyakojima Islandapart of Ryukyu Islands Arc) is investigated using a 20-year global HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM) reanalysis with the Navy Coupled Ocean Data Assimilation from 1993 to 2012.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 10, 2015
Accession Number
AD1031053

Entities

People

  • Edward Joseph Metzger
  • Hanna Na
  • Harley E. Hurlburt
  • Hirohiko Nakamura
  • Jae-Hun Park
  • Luis Zamudio
  • Ole Martin Smedstad
  • Prasad G. Thoppil
  • Zhitao Yu

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Coordinate Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • East China Sea
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Grids
  • Latitude
  • Longitude
  • North Pacific Ocean
  • Ocean Currents
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Ryukyu Islands
  • Sea Surface Temperature
  • Temperature Gradients
  • Topography
  • Wind Stress

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers