The Western Boundary Current of the pacific and its role in the climate

Hu Dunxin; Cui Maochang

doi:10.1007/BF02849784

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The Western Boundary Current of the pacific and its role in the climate

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- The Western Boundary Current of the pacific and its role in the climate
- Journal of Oceanology and Limnology Vol. 9, Issue 1, Pages: 1-14(1991)
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Dunxin, H., Maochang, C. The Western Boundary Current of the pacific and its role in the climate., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 9, 1–14 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02849784
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Dunxin, H., Maochang, C. The Western Boundary Current of the pacific and its role in the climate., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 9, 1–14 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02849784 DOI：

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On the basis of the CTD data gathered by the R/VScience I in each Oct. of 1986–1988 and the winter averaged temperature anomaly in southeast China

the interannual variability of the Western Boundary Current (WBC) is examined in terms of volume transport by inverse calculation and its role in the climate is studied by statistical method. The estimated transport is 50

and 33×106 m3/s for the Kuroshio and 24

and 36×106 m3/s for the Mindanao Current (MC) in October of 1986

1987

and 1988

respectively. The WBC is the biggest channel in the ocean for transporting heat poleward and plays an extremely important role in establishing and maintaining the global heat balance. Results showed that meridional heat transport by the Kuroshio northeast of Luzon apparently dominates coldness or warmness in winter in southeast China. Two phenomena observed in the western Pacific but not in the western Atlantic are the warm pool and the equatorward flowing MC which

together with the North Equatorial Counter-current (NECC) may play an important role in preventing the warm water from extending to the north. So in order to understand the dynamics of the warm pool formation and evolution

the MC and NECC must be studied as well as the Equatorial Current.

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