Every year in late August, during the summer vacation, twelve third year students chosen from Kuroshio's two junior high schools travel to Hamilton, New Zealand.
Kuroshio Current | Tosa Kuroshio Railway | Tosa Kuroshio Railway Nakamura Line | Tosa Kuroshio Railway Asa Line | Kuroshio |
Henry Stommel showed that the north-south gradient of the strength of the Coriolis force (the "beta effect") was responsible for the observed fact that the return flow of the slow interior gyre circulations is concentrated in fast moving western boundary currents, such as the Gulf Stream and the Kuroshio Current, a process known as western intensification.