Fig. 1
From: The Pliocene to recent history of the Kuroshio and Tsushima Currents: a multi-proxy approach
The surface oceanography of the Northwest Pacific Ocean adapted from Gallagher et al. (2009). The 200Â m shelf edge bathymetric contour is indicated. The mean annual isotherm values are from Locarnini et al. (2006). The North Pacific currents are from Inoue (1989), Tomczak and Godfrey (1994), Qiu (2001), and Tada et al. (2014) ME Mindanao Eddy, HE Halmahera Eddy