The Kuroshio Current and Kuroshio Extension play a critical role in the North Pacific, transporting warm water north and circulating much-needed nutrients to aquatic life. However, scientists have ...

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. -- A new study led by researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York found that the Kuroshio Current Extension is sensitive to global climate change and has the ...

For the same reason, the surface dissolved PCBs concentration in the western boundary current region is mainly controlled by the ocean advection, indicating that dissolved PCBs from upstream carried ...

As the intensity and frequency of the strongest cyclones east of Taiwan have increased, so has the strength of the Kuroshio current, a Pacific current responsible for redistributing heat throughout ...

(CNN) — Bathtubs and pools mislead us about the ocean: Its surface is anything but flat. Seas pile up in some spots, pushed by trade winds or pulled by gravity toward big things like ice sheets. Amid ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock The Kuroshio Current and Kuroshio Extension play a critical role in the North Pacific, transporting warm ...

CA is gaseous PCB in the atmosphere, CW is dissolved PCB in the water, CWP is phytoplankton-bound PCB, and CWD is detritus-bound PCB. The fields in the boxes to the right are input data for PCB ...