The Tsushima warm current, a branch of the Kuroshio current, flows northwards through the Korea Strait along the Japanese shore. The Liman cold current flows southwards through the Strait of Tartary along the Russian shore. The August sea surface temperatures in this region are described by Schweitzer (1993). The sea surface temperatures are around 30 […]

10.2.4 Geography The East China Sea (Figure 10.11) is a marginal sea east of mainland China. It is a part of the Pacific Ocean and covers an area of 1 249 000 km2. In China, the sea is called the East Sea. In South Korea, the sea is sometimes called South Sea, but this is […]

The strongest tidal currents listed by the Admiralty occur in the straits between the Java Sea and the Timor Sea. The tides are diurnal (Figure 10.10), and Fz = 2.25 has been allocated to the station analysed below. 3.0

10.2.2 Geography The Republic of Indonesia is a nation in south-east Asia comprising 17 508 islands; it is the world’s largest archipelagic state. The nation’s capital city is Jakarta. The country shares land borders with Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and Malaysia. Other neighbouring countries include Singapore, the Philippines, Australia, and the Indian territory of […]

The strongest tidal currents listed by the Admiralty occur in the two Indian Gulfs and are illustrated by Stations 10.14 and 10.15. Fz = 2.0 is appropriate for the analyses of these stations with the STEM software. Station 10.14 (Figure 10.8) shows the results in the entrance to the Gulf of Kutch, with a peak […]

The sea surface temperatures off the western coastline of India are described by Schweitzer (1993). The sea surface temperatures are around 28 °C in the north and increase by a few degrees towards the south of the region. The corresponding sea surface salinities decrease from about 35 psu in the north of the region to […]

Although the data shown earlier suggest a good potential in the western Indian Ocean, this potential does not appear to be supported by the data available. Reasonably strong semi-diurnal tidal currents are listed by the Admiralty at the entrance to bays on the Somalia/Kenya border. For example, Station 10.11 was allocated Fz = 1.5 and […]

The sea surface temperatures off the eastern coastline of Africa are described by Schweitzer (1993). The sea surface temperatures are about 25 °C and decrease by a few degrees towards the south of the region. The south equatorial current and the east African coastal current run offshore and are strongest during the south-west monsoon. The […]