Kuroshio Current

American  

noun

1. Japan Current.

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Kuroshio Current Scientific  

/ k-rō′shē-ō′ /

1. See Japan Current

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Example Sentences

The dispersal pathway of the Kuroshio Current indicates that Borelis matsudai likely appeared in the southern and central Ryukyu Islands at least since the Middle Pleistocene, around 770,000 years ago.

From Science Daily • Sep. 19, 2023

But the model’s predictions weren’t any better than a guess in some areas, including the Mediterranean and along the Atlantic’s Gulf Stream and Japan’s Kuroshio Current.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 22, 2023

In commercial production, the plan is to site the turbines in the Kuroshio Current, one of the world’s strongest, which runs along Japan’s eastern coast, and transmit the power via seabed cables.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 6, 2022

It is known as the Kuroshio Current and Extension, or KCE, a series of currents snaking from the South China Sea past the coast of Japan and into the Northern Pacific Ocean.

From Salon • Sep. 30, 2021

Fukushima’s radiation reached coastal Canada first because of the powerful Kuroshio Current, which flows from Japan across the Pacific.

From Scientific American • Feb. 25, 2014