WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS (14:35-18:10)
Chairperson : Ichiro Yasuda (FRSGC / Univ. of Tokyo)
14:35-15:05
Low frequency processes in Western Boundary Currents
Nelson Hogg (WHOI)
15:05-15:35
Cross-frontal exchange associated with meanders
D. Randolph Watts (Univ. Rhode Island)
15:35-15:50
(Break)
15:50-16:20
Simulation of Kuroshio using a primitive equation ocean model
Humio Mitsudera (IPRC), Yasushi Yoshikawa (JAMSTEC), Bunmei Taguchi (Mitsubishi R. I.) and Hirohiko Nakamura (Kagoshima Univ.)
16:20-16:50
Observationally estimated transport of the Kuroshio south of Japan
Shiro Imawaki (Kyushu Univ.), Hiroshi Uchida (Japan Science and Technology Corporation) and ASUKA Group
16:50-17:10
Monitoring of the Kuroshio over the Izu Ridge
Yasushi Yoshikawa (JAMSTEC), Takeshi Taneda and Kimio Hanawa (Tohoku Univ.)
17:10-17:40
Surfaoe currents in the North Western Pacific from WOCE / TOGA drifters
Nikolai A. Maximenko (P. Shirshov Inst. Oceanology), Gleb G. Panteleev, (Dalhousie Univ.), Pearn P. Niiler (SIO) and Tosbio Yamagata (Univ. Tokyo)
17:40-18:10
The Intermediate Circulation as Observed by RAFOS floats
Olaf Boebel (Univ. Cape Town)
