Kuroshio Inferred from SSTs ()
ABSTRACT
Twenty years of
ship-injection temperatures are averaged annually and plotted against longitude
in the western tropics of the North Pacific. Centered at 150E at both 20N and
25N is a large-scale longitudinal maximum in sea surface temperature. The
simplest in-terpretation of this permanent feature is that a continuous flow of
warm surface water out of the south is required to maintain it, since some heat
will escape into the atmosphere in transit. It is concluded that the northward
flow is the Kuroshio.
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