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The Pacific counterpart of the Gulf Stream: the western boundary current of the North Pacific subtropical gyre, running north along the east coast of Taiwan, up the shelf edge of the East China Sea and past Japan before turning east as the Kuroshio Extension. The WOCE PCM-1 moored array east of Taiwan measured a mean transport of about 21.5 ± 2.5 Sv; across the PN line in the central East China Sea the time-mean is about 23.3 Sv. Transport varies by roughly ±10 Sv on timescales of months, with most observations showing a maximum in the warm half of the year. Its name means "black tide" — the water is unusually clear and nutrient-poor, and therefore dark.

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  2. The Pacific counterpart of the Gulf Stream: the western boundary current of the North Pacific subtropical gyre, running north along the east coast of Taiwan, up the shelf edge of the East China Sea and past Japan before turning east as the Kuroshio Extension. The WOCE PCM-1 moored array east of Taiwan measured a mean transport of about 21.5 ± 2.5 Sv; across the PN line in the central East China Sea the time-mean is about 23.3 Sv. Transport varies by roughly ±10 Sv on timescales of months, with most observations showing a maximum in the warm half of the year. Its name means "black tide" — the water is unusually clear and nutrient-poor, and therefore dark.
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  4. Western Intensification of Wind-Driven Gyres
  5. Kuroshio
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  7. Western Intensification of Wind-Driven Gyres
  8. North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre
  9. Gulf Stream
  10. Kuroshio
  11. Henry Stommel
  12. Stommel explains why the fast currents are on the west
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  14. Mean Kuroshio transport east of Taiwan from the PCM-1 moored array is about 21.5 ± 2.5 Sv; across the PN line in the central East China Sea the time-mean is about 23.3 Sv, with variability of order ±10 Sv on monthly timescales. Read via search summaries of this paper and of a 2021 Frontiers in Marine Science review; neither was fetched.
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