Path Transition of the Kuroshio Due to Mesoscale Eddies: A Two-Layer, Wind-Driven Experiment |
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| Authors: | Kazunori Akitomo Masao Kurogi |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Geophysics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan |
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| Abstract: | We have executed numerical experiments using a two-layer, wind-driven ocean model with simplified coastal geometry and bottom
topography to investigate the possibility of the Kuroshio path transition due to mesoscale eddies. A straight path easily
changes into a meandering path due to the eddy action. For this transition, an anticyclonic eddy is preferable to a cyclonic
one when imposed in the beginning region of the Kuroshio (east of Taiwan). When imposed southeast of Kyushu, on the other
hand, a cyclonic eddy is more effective than an anticyclonic one. The reverse transition, from a meandering to a straight
path, did not occur at all in this experiment.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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| Keywords: | Kuroshio bimodality path transition mesoscale eddy wind-driven circulation two-layer model |
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