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Close ✕Kuroshio
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…
24.7, 123.0 · route · permanent feature; PCM-1 transport observations from the 1990s
Connections
- instance of Western Intensification of Wind-Driven Gyres — It is the North Pacific instance of the same mechanism, on the western edge of that basin's subtropical gyre.
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