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KEO surface buoy deployment operations.

KEO surface buoy deployment operations.
KEO surface buoy deployment operations.
KEO surface buoy deployment operations.
KEO surface buoy deployment operations.
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Jayne, Steven
KEO surface buoy deployment operations.
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05/28/2005
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 44, No. 2, Pg. 16:
Current affairs.
Offshore Japan—The Pacific Ocean equivalent of the Gulf Stream is the Kuroshio Current. This strong, warm, northward flowing current leaves the Japanese coast to flow eastward into the North Pacific as a free jet—the Kuroshio Extension. Here, warm Kuroshio waters encounter cold, dry air masses coming from Asia, triggering intense air-sea heat exchanges that affect regional storms and climate and, indirectly, fisheries. In June, WHOI physical oceanographers Nelson Hogg and Steve Jayne led a cruise to redeploy instrumented mooring arrays to measure currents and water properties that will reveal the dynamics of the Kuroshio Extension.
Photo by Steven Jayne
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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