STUDY ON THE CALCULATION OF OCEAN CURRENT VELOCITY

In order to calculate the wind indnced current and the density current which vary with oceon depth the auther presents a method for calculating the current velocity from the distributions of wind stresses at the sea surface and the density distribution of sea water.The horizontal gradients of pressure at any determined by making certain assumptions,and the coefficients of vertical eddy viscosity are obtained by comparing the calculated values of the current velocities at sea surface with the observed ones.We used this method to calculate the current velocities at any depth in Kuroshio,since it gives comparatively satisfactory results in the positions of the branches of Kuroshio,the situations of the current axis of Kuroshio etc.,the validity of this method is verified.