Now, a new study reveals that the Pacific Ocean may be having its own problems with a comparable, albeit slightly smaller current system. It is known as the Kuroshio Current and Extension ...

Over the next 20 years, those bottles would travel all over the Pacific Ocean, arriving in the Philippines, the Hawaiian Islands, and North America after hitching a ride on the Kuroshio Current.

The major western boundary current in the northern Pacific Ocean, the Kuroshio Current and Extension, is analogous to the Gulf Stream, which flows along North America's east coast. Driven by the ...

Bo Qiu, Daniel L. Rudnick, Ivana Cerovecki, Bruce D. Cornuelle, Shuiming Chen, Martha C. Schönau, Julie L. McClean, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan Oceanography, Vol. 28, No ...

Historically, the ocean has been difficult to model. Scientists struggled in years past to simulate ocean currents or ...

Researchers found that stronger tropical cyclones intensify global warming Strong tropical cyclones and mesoscale ocean whirlpools speed up the Kuroshio Current Kuroshio Current transports warm ...

The Kuroshio ocean current, on the other hand, flows at more like 1-2 m/sec. But it's enormous, up to 100 km (62 miles) across in some places, and it's estimated to move a staggering 65 million ...

The Pacific Ocean off the coast of Hokkaido was particularly warm, which experts attributed to an abnormal flow of the Kuroshio Current. The Asahi Shimbun analyzed JMA data on average sea ...