{"id":163663,"date":"2020-11-20T12:32:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T17:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/?page_id=163663"},"modified":"2022-02-25T14:46:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T19:46:45","slug":"asuka","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/research\/dynamics\/projects\/asuka\/","title":{"rendered":"ASUKA"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-menu-wrapper\"><nav id=\"\" class=\"cl-menu  \" data-name=\"Dynamics Research Group\" data-show-title=\"0\"><ul id=\"menu-dynamics-research-group\" class=\"cl-menu-list cl-menu-list-no-js\"><li id=\"menu-item-155910\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-155910\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/research\/dynamics\/\">Dynamics Group<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-155907\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-has-children menu-item-155907\"><a 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menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-174195\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/research\/dynamics\/inverted-echo-sounders\/ies-photo-gallery\/\">IES Photo Gallery<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li id=\"menu-item-174205\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-174205\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/iesbibupdated1-1.pdf\">IES Publications<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-176101\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-176101\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/research\/dynamics\/publications\/\">Publications<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/nav><\/section>\n<p><b>The Kuroshio off Southern Japan: Analysis of Data from the ASUKA Study<br \/>\n(ASUKA: The Affiliated Surveys of the Kuroshio off Ashizuri-Misaki)<\/b><\/p>\n<div id=\"textarea\">\n<ul>\n<li><b>Field Program:<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; 1993-1995<\/li>\n<li><b>Principal Investigator:<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; Mark Wimbush, University of Rhode Island<\/li>\n<li><b>Goal:<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; Determining and understanding Kuroshio and Kuroshio Countercurrent transports of volume, heat, and salt and their fluctuations on time scales of days to years.<\/li>\n<li>Funding for this project was supplied by the Office of Naval Research<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"imgarea\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/uc?export=view&amp;id=1po1sDELsJupWBPAyKI81BT-l7yLaYJoM\" alt=\"ASUKA measurement area\" border=\"0\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"more_text\">\n<ul>\n<li>Geographic locations of principal ASUKA measurements. Solid circles (large or small) mark sites where hydrographic profiles were usually taken. The larger solid circles also indicate the sites of IES&#8217;s. Bull&#8217;s eyes are current-meter-mooring sites. Current-meter moorings with asterisks (CM2 and CM4) were topped by upward-looking ADCP&#8217;s. Solid line indicates the main ASUKA line. The T\/P track is parallel to this line and lies approximately 8 km to the west-southwest. Lower panel shows a sketch of the mean Kuroshio path and recirculation in this region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b><a name=\"refs\"><\/a>Publications<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"kakinokietal2008\"><\/a>Kakinoki, K., S.&nbsp;Imawaki1, H.&nbsp;Uchida, H.&nbsp;Nakamura, K.&nbsp;Ichikawa1, S.-I. Umatani, A.&nbsp;Nishina, H.&nbsp;Ichikawa, and M.&nbsp;Wimbush. Variations of Kuroshio geostrophic transport south of Japan estimated from long-term IES observations. <cite>J. Oceanogr.<\/cite>, 64:373\u2013384, 2008. (<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/doi:10.1007\/s10872-008-0030-4\">doi:10.1007\/s10872-008-0030-4<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Book, J. 1998, Kuroshio variability off southwest Japan. M.S. Thesis, University of Rhode Island, 91pp.<\/li>\n<li>Book, J., K.L. Tracey, H. Ichikawa, S. Imawaki, H. Uchida, and H. Kinoshita, 1999, The Kuroshio region off southwest Japan, ASUKA 1993-95 inverted echo sounder data report. Graduate School of Oceanography Technical Report 99-1, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI 02882. (<a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.uri.edu\/physical_oceanography_techrpts\/17\/\">PDF <\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Book, J.W., M. Wimbush, S. Imawaki, H. Ichikawa, H. Uchida, and H. Kinoshita, 2002, Kuroshio temporal and spatial variations south of Japan determined from inverted echo sounder measurements, J. Geophy. Res., 107(C9), 3121, (<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1029\/2001JC000795\">doi:10.1029\/2001JC000795.<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Imawaki, S., H. Ichikawa, H. Uchida, S. Umatani, M. Fukazawa, and M. Wimbush, 1998, Determining Kuroshio volume and heat transport off Shikoku. Japan GOOS Newsletter, 5, 1-11.<\/li>\n<li>James, C., 1996, Kuroshio instabilities in the East China Sea: observations, modeling and comparison with the Gulf Stream. Ph.D. thesis, University of Rhode Island, 150pp. (<a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.uri.edu\/dissertations\/AAI9723560\/\">PDF<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>James, C., M. Wimbush and H. Ichikawa, 1999. Kuroshio Meanders in the East China Sea, J.Phys. Oceanography, 29, 259-272. (<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1175\/1520-0485(1999)029%3C0259:KMITEC%3E2.0.CO;2\">doi:10.1175\/1520-0485(1999)029%3C0259:KMITEC%3E2.0.CO;2)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Wimbush, M., H. Ichikawa, J. Book, H. Uchida, and H. Kinoshita, 1998, Separating baroclinic and barotropic sea-surface height components in the ASUKA region, by combining altimeter and inverted echo sounder measurements. Proceedings of Symposium on Ocean-Earth Dynamics and Satellite Altimetry, Tokyo University Ocean Research Institute, 11-12 November 1997, 33-50.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Link to virtual poster: <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.po.gso.uri.edu\/wbc\/book\">Inverted Echo Sounder Observations of Kuroshio Meanders South of Japan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kuroshio off Southern Japan: Analysis of Data from the ASUKA Study (ASUKA: The Affiliated Surveys of the Kuroshio off Ashizuri-Misaki) Field Program:&nbsp;&nbsp; 1993-1995 Principal Investigator:&nbsp;&nbsp; Mark Wimbush, University of Rhode Island Goal:&nbsp;&nbsp; Determining and understanding Kuroshio and Kuroshio Countercurrent transports of volume, heat, and salt and their fluctuations on time scales of days to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1726,"featured_media":0,"parent":155844,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-163663","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163663"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176695,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163663\/revisions\/176695"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}