Origins of the Kuroshio and Mindanao Current

The overarching goal of OKMC was to quantify patterns of flow and fluxes of mass, heat, and salt, for the ultimate purpose of establishing predictability. Spray underwater glider observations focused especially on the North Equatorial Current and the Mindanao Current.

Time Span

JUN 2009 - JAN 2014

Observations

Temperature, Salinity, Currents

  • Region: Western North Pacific
  • PI: Daniel Rudnick
  • Funded by: Office of Naval Research

Project Dataset Files

Cleaned, post-processed and vertically binned to meet user needs

Access Options

Data are available in CF compliant NetCDF files and are also available via our ERDDAP server which offers additional file types, data subsetting, visualization options and more.

OKMC

JUN 2009 - JAN 2014
NetCDF ERDDAP Details

Project Dataset Processing

  • Averaged to 10-m vertical bins
  • Bins improve ease of use
  • Bins allow for easy integration of ADCP acoustic backscatter and velocity data
  • Filtered using QC flags
  • Only high-quality data are represented in each bin

How to Cite

When using this dataset, please cite the data as:

Rudnick, D. (2020). Origins of the Kuroshio and Mindanao Current [Data set]. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Instrument Development Group. doi: 10.21238/S8SPRAY9131

Publications

Schönau, M. C., D. L. Rudnick, G. Gopalakrishnan, B. D. Cornuelle, and B. Qiu, 2022: Mean, annual and interannual circulation and volume transport in the western tropical North Pacific from the Western Pacific Ocean State Estimates (WPOSE). Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans; doi: 10.1029/2021JC018213
Schönau, M. C., H. W. Wijesekera, W. J. Teague, P. L. Colin, G. Gopalakrishnan, D. L. Rudnick, B. D. Cornuelle, Z. R. Hallock, and D. W. Wang, 2019: The End of an El Niño: A View from Palau. Oceanography, 32, 32-45, doi: 10.5670/oceanog.2019.409; doi: 10.5670/oceanog.2019.409
Schönau, M. C., & Rudnick, D. L. (2017). Mindanao Current and Undercurrent: Thermohaline structure and transport from repeat glider observations. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 47(8), 2055-2075; doi: 10.1175/JPO-D-16-0274.1
Schönau, M. C., D. L. Rudnick, I. Cerovecki, G. Gopalakrishnan, B. D. Cornuelle, J. L. McClean, and B. Qiu (2015). The Mindanao Current: Mean structure and connectivity. Oceanography, 28, 34–45; doi: 10.5670/oceanog.2015.79
Schönau, M. C., & Rudnick, D. L. (2015). Glider observations of the North Equatorial Current in the western tropical Pacific. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 120(5), 3586-3605; doi: 10.1002/2014JC010595
Qiu, Bo, Daniel L. Rudnick, Ivana Cerovecki, Bruce D. Cornuelle, Shuiming Chen, Martha C. Schoenau, Julie L. McClean, and Ganesh Gopalakrishnan. (2015). The Pacific North Equatorial Current New Insights from the Origins of the Kuroshio and Mindanao Currents (OKMC) Project. Oceanography, 28(4), 24-33; doi: 10.5670/oceanog.2015.78
Rudnick, D. L., S. Jan, and C. M. Lee, 2015: A new look at circulation in the western North Pacific. Oceanography, 28, 16-23; doi: 10.5670/oceanog.2015.77