State two importance of the Kuroshio Current.
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The Kuroshio Current plays a vital role in the circulation of the North PACIFIC OCEAN. The current involves great volumes of water capable of carrying large amounts of heat. The heat, which is carried north by this flow, has an effect on climate of the adjacent land areas.
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The Kuroshio Current, which is the major western boundary current in the northwestern Pacific, is an offshoot of the North Equatorial Current in the wind-driven North Pacific Subtropical Gyre and has important effects on East Asian and global climates associated with northward thermal transport. The Kuroshio Current flows northward along the continental shelf in the Okinawa Trough (Figs. 1a and b) and subsequently flows along the southern coast of Japan (Fig. 1b;Qiu, 2001). Off the Boso Peninsula around 35 • N, the current leaves the coast of Japan and travels eastward as the Kuroshio Extension Current (KEC), which generates the Kuroshio Extension Front (KEF) just to the north of its axis (Fig. 1b). ...