The Kuroshio Current (黒潮, "Black Tide"), also known as the Black Current or Japan Current (日本海流, Nihon Kairyū) is a north-flowing, warm ocean current on the west side of the North Pacific Ocean basin. It was named for the deep blue appearance of its waters.

Kuroshio, strong surface oceanic current of the Pacific Ocean, the northeasterly flowing continuation of the Pacific North Equatorial Current between Luzon of the Philippines and the east coast of Japan. The temperature and salinity of Kuroshio …

2019年8月27日 · What are some of the key characteristics of the Kuroshio Current? The surface water of the Kuroshio moves rapidly, transporting heat, salt, organic and inorganic matter from south to north.

2016年1月3日 · The Kuroshio is the biggest current in the western Pacific. It begins off the coast of the Philippines, where a current that flows westward across the Pacific splits in two. The Kuroshio forms the northern branch.

2024年10月29日 · The Kuroshio Current, often called the “Black Stream” due to the deep blue and almost black appearance of its waters, is one of the world’s strongest and most vital ocean currents. Like the Atlantic’s Gulf Stream, the Kuroshio …

The Kuroshio Current (黒潮, Kuroshio, literally “Black Current”, named after the deeper blue colour of its waters), and is also known as the Japan Current. The Kuroshio is a warm water, north-flowing current, which transports warm, and tropical water northward toward the …

3 天之前 · This is the 'beauty shot version' of Perpetual Ocean 2: Western Boundary Currents. The visualization starts with a rotating globe showing ocean currents. The camera then zooms into the Kuroshio current, moves over the Indian Ocean to the Agulhas Current, then over to the Gulf Stream. The flows from the surface down to 600 meters deep are all white. Flows below …

The Kuroshio Current is a northward flowing Western Boundary Current (WBC) in the Pacific Ocean. It is a bifurcation arm of the North Equatorial Current and consists of northwestern Pacific Ocean water.

Kuroshio is a fast ocean current (2 to 4 knots). Every second, the current carries some 50 million tons of sea water past Japan's southeast coast, a flow equal in volume to about 6,000 rivers the size of the DANUBE or the VOLGA.

2018年5月29日 · Kuroshio Current(Kuro Shiwo Current) The oceanic surface current that flows northwards from the Philippines, along the Japanese coast, and then out into the North Pacific. It is an example of a western boundary current : fast-flowing (up to 3 m/s), narrow (less than 80 km), and relatively deep.