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Definition of Kuroshio current
1. Noun. A warm ocean current that flows northeastwardly off the coast of Japan into the northern Pacific ocean.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kuroshio Current
Literary usage of Kuroshio current
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Sea Level Workshop: Workshop Report edited by V. Gornitz (2000)
"... In the western Pacific, the kuroshio current in southern Japan regularly takes
one of three typical paths: 1) the large meander ..."
2. Planned Invasion of Japan, 1945: The Siberian Weather Advantage by Hatten Schuyler Yoder (1997)
"The cold Siberian air crosses the kuroshio current (Fig.) and produces well
developed polar fronts with strong thunderstorms. As a result of high velocity ..."
3. Our Changing Planet: The Fiscal Year 1996 U. S. Global Change Research Program by Robert C. Correll (1998)
"... coasts during the 1982- 83 El Nino have crossed the North Pacific, and a decade
later caused northward re-routing of the kuroshio current that normally ..."
4. Beyond the Golden Gate: Oceanography, Geology, Biology, and Environmental by Herman A. Karl (2001)
"It forms the east part of this gyre, which is defined in the west by the Kuroshio
Current (Pacific Gulf Stream), in the north by the North Pacific Current, ..."
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