Definitions
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- noun a warm ocean current that flows northeastwardly off the coast of Japan into the northern Pacific ocean
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Examples
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The East China Sea LME is influenced by the warm Tsushima Current, which originates in this LME, and by the Kuroshio Current, of higher temperature and salinity, in the south.
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Instead we have headed east, into the Kuroshio Current, which should give us a nice northerly push around the east coast of Taiwan. '
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