Bottom currents on the continental slope off Shikoku

Akira Nagano; Hiroshi Ichikawa; Kaoru Ichikawa; Masanori Konda

doi:10.1109/OCEANSKOBE.2008.4530977

Bottom currents on the continental slope off Shikoku

Akira Nagano, Hiroshi Ichikawa, Kaoru Ichikawa, Masanori Konda

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Beneath the Kuroshio south of Shikoku, there exist bottom currents, flowing in the different direction from the Kuroshio. In order to examine their horizontal and vertical characteristics, we analyzed four current data sets obtained by lowered acoustic Doppler current profilers (LADCP) in the region south of Shikoku during 2004-2006. While the surface Kuroshio in the top 700-m layer flows eastward, the bottom currents flow toward the left-hand side of the surface Kuroshio, i.e., to the inshore side. This vertical current structure is found to be maintained even when the Kuroshio moves offshore to the deep-ocean due to the propagation of the small meander of the Kuroshio.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	OCEANS'08 MTS/IEEE Kobe-Techno-Ocean'08 - Voyage toward the Future, OTO'08
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSKOBE.2008.4530977
Publication status	Published - Sep 16 2008
Event	OCEANS'08 MTS/IEEE Kobe-Techno-Ocean'08 - Voyage toward the Future, OTO'08 - Kobe, Japan Duration: Apr 9 2008 → Apr 11 2008

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Other	OCEANS'08 MTS/IEEE Kobe-Techno-Ocean'08 - Voyage toward the Future, OTO'08
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Kobe
Period	4/9/08 → 4/11/08

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Computers in Earth Sciences
Ocean Engineering
Acoustics and Ultrasonics

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