Velocity Cross-section at WOCE PCM-1
Current meter data (top) vs. 1/12° Pacific HYCOM (bottom) in the upper 1000 m
Current meter data from Lee et al.
(2001, JGR)
6 year mean from HYCOM forced with
high-frequency ECMWF
winds and thermal forcing
No ocean data assimilation in
HYCOM
PCM-1 data from
September 1995
to May 1996
Note the westward
intensification
of the Kuroshio in the channel
between Taiwan and the Ryukyu
Islands
