The Kuroshio Current and Kuroshio Extension play a critical role in the North Pacific, transporting warm water north and ...
In recent years, a major ocean current changed its path in two crucial ways. Now parts of the sea are rising, other parts are falling, ocean temperatures are breaking records — and Japan’s iconic ...
The warm, northward-flowing waters of the Kuroshio western boundary current leave the Japanese coast to flow eastward into the North Pacific as a free jet called the Kuroshio Extension. This extension ...
Earth’s oceans are not merely home to most of Earth’s life, but they also function like heaters and coolers for the entire planet. This means that they are crucial to survival of all life, not just ...
Observational analyses reveal that wintertime variations in sea surface temperatures (SST) in the Kuroshio–Oyashio Extension (KOE) region of the North Pacific are associated with two distinct and ...
(CNN) — Bathtubs and pools mislead us about the ocean: Its surface is anything but flat. Seas pile up in some spots, pushed by trade winds or pulled by gravity toward big things like ice sheets. Amid ...