Modification of the western subarctic water by exchange with the Okhotsk Sea

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 689-711

  Kono, Tokihiro ^a   Kawasaki, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OYASHIO WATER; SUBARCTIC CIRCULATION; WATER EXCHANGE; WATER MASSES; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS;

PACIFIC, (NORTHWEST); SEA OF OKHOTSK;

EID: 0030809015     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0637(96)00107-0     Document Type: Article

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