Effect of the Kuroshio System on the sea level at the southern coast of Japan.
From the viewpoint of the geostrophic character of the Kuroshio, the numerical relationship between the surface transport of the Kuroshio System including the countercurrent north of the Kuroshio current and the sea level of the southern coast of Japan was investigated empirically. The dynamic depth anomalies of the Kuroshio off the coasts of Kii. Peninsula and Omae-zaki in the period of 1958-1970 and the results of GEK observation in the Kuroshio region south of Japan during 1967-1969 and 1971 were used for this investigation. When the surface transport of the Kuroshio decreases, the sea level difference of the Kuroshio decreases having a rise of sea level on the inner side of the Kuroshio and a fall on the outer side, and vice versa. Near the coast of Japan, the rise in sea level is equal to the sum of 0.36 times as large as the decrease of sea level difference in the Kuroshio and of the total increase of sea level difference in the countercurrent north of the Kuroshio. On an average, about a half of the abnormally high waters at the southern coast of Japan, which occurred in September 1971 and July 1972, seems to be caused by the decreases of surface transport of the Kuroshio System at these times.
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| Format: | Journal Contribution biblioteca |
| Language: | Japanese |
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1974
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/16334 |
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