Antisymmetry of oceanic eddies across the Kuroshio over a shelfbreak

Abstract From the analysis of oceanic eddies detected in the drifter trajectories of the Global Drifter Program (GDP) data set, it was found that oceanic eddies are asymmetrically distributed across the Kuroshio in the East China Sea: predominant cyclonic (anticyclonic) eddies are on the western (ea...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yu Liu, Changming Dong, Xiaohui Liu, Jihai Dong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-07-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-07059-1