"Oyashio" redirects here. For other uses, see Oyashio (disambiguation).
The Oyashio Current colliding with the Kuroshio Current near Hokkaido. When two currents collide, they create eddies. Phytoplankton growing in the surface waters become concentrated along the boundaries of these eddies, tracing out the motions of the water.The ocean currents surrounding the Japanese Archipelago: 1.Kuroshio 2. Kuroshio extension 3. Kuroshio countercurrent 4. The Tsushima Current 5. The Tsugaru Current 6. The Sōya Current 7. Oyashio 8. The Liman Current
The Oyashio Current (親潮, "Parental Tide"), also known as the Okhotsk Current or Kurile Current, is a cold subarctic ocean current that flows south and circulates counterclockwise in the western North Pacific Ocean. The waters of the Oyashio Current originate in the Arctic Ocean and flow southward via the Bering Sea, passing through the Bering Strait and transporting cold water from the Arctic Sea into the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Okhotsk. It collides with the Kuroshio Current off the eastern shore of Japan to form the North Pacific Current (or Drift).
The nutrient-rich Oyashio is named for its metaphorical role as the parent (親, oya) that provides for and nurtures marine organisms.[1][2]
^Qiu, Bo (2001). "Kuroshio and Oyashio Currents". Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences(PDF). Academic Press. pp. 1413–25. The upwelled, nutrient-rich water feeds the Oyashio from the north and leads to its nomenclature, parent (oya) stream (shio).
^Glattstein, Judy (1996). Enhance Your Garden with Japanese Plants. Kodansha International. p. 16. ISBN 978-1-56836-137-6. [...] currents whirl around and ascend, and nourish microscopic plankton. Oyashio is thus the parent of fishes.
The OyashioCurrent (親潮, "Parental Tide"), also known as the Okhotsk Current or Kurile Current, is a cold subarctic ocean current that flows south and...
East Coast of Japan, it merges with the OyashioCurrent to form the North Pacific Current. The Kuroshio Current has significant effects on both physical...
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Slope Current. A portion of this current then becomes the OyashioCurrent while the remainder joins the warmer North Pacific Current. Ocean current – Directional...
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North Equatorial Current. It flows past Japan and meets the arctic waters of the OyashioCurrent. At this junction, the North Pacific Current (or Drift) is...
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"Kuroshio and OyashioCurrents" (PDF). Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences. Academic Press. pp. 1413–25. The upwelled, nutrient-rich water feeds the Oyashio from the...
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and disputed by Japan. The cold OyashioCurrent flows southwest along the east side of the peninsula, and the Soya Current flows southeast from the Sea of...
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are lowest on exposed parts of the Pacific coast where fogs from the Oyashiocurrent create persistent cloud cover similar to that found on the Kuril Islands...
8 h per day due to the consistent fog from the Aleutian Low and the OyashioCurrent on its western flank. Extreme temperatures have ranged from −23.5 to...
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relative warmth of the Pacific Ocean due to the shutting down of the OyashioCurrent and the presence of large east–west mountain ranges were secondary...
the collision of the OyashioCurrent with the Kuroshio Current produces nutrient-rich upwellings. Cyclic changes in these currents resulted in a decline...
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