Fig. 1. Transport of the Kuroshio for upper 1,000m. Panel (a) shows a scatter plot of the Kuroshio transport (in Sv) and SSDT difference (in m) across the Kuroshio. Twenty-frve cases are shown. The correlation coefficient is 0.90 and the rms difference from the regression line (solid line) with a slope of 81 Sv/m is 5.6 Sv. Panel (b) shows vertical profiles of the Kuroshio transport per unit depth, normalized by the sea-surface transport. Twenty-five individual profiles (thin line) are shown as well as the mean profile (thick line), whose standard deviation is shown by dotted lines. There are two outliers labeled D94 and J95.
