North Korea Cold Current

The North Korea Cold Current (NKCC) is a cold water oceanic current in the Sea of Japan/East Sea that flows southward from near Vladivostok along the coastline of the eastern Korean Peninsula. It is a branch of the Liman Current from the Sea of Okhotsk and has a flow rate of about a half knot. The NKCC meets the northward flowing East Korean Warm Current at latitude 37–38° N, causing the flow to separate from the peninsula.^[1] At about latitude 40° N, the NKCC meets the Tsushima Warm Current.^[2]

References

1. ^ Brink, Kenneth H.; Robinson, Allan R. (2005). The Global Coastal Ocean: Regional Studies and Syntheses. The Sea: Ideas and Observations on Progress in the Study of the Seas. 11. Harvard University Press. p. 456. ISBN 0674017412. http://books.google.com/books?id=-uhTulqFRIgC&pg=PA456. Retrieved 2011-03-24. 
2. ^ McFarlane, Gordon A.; et al.. "Contrast in life histories of exploited fishes and ecosystem structures in coastal waters off west Canada and east Korea". Oceanic Science Journal 44 (1): 43–60. doi:10.1007/s12601-009-0006-3. 

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