Roles of the Okhotsk Sea and Gulf of Alaska in forming the North Pacific Intermediate Water

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 105, Issue C2, 2000, Pages 3253-3280

  You, Yuzhu ^a,b   Suginohara, Nobuo ^a   Fukasawa, Masao ^c   Yasuda, Ichiro ^a   Kaneko, Ikuo ^d   Yoritaka, Hiroyuki ^e   Kawamiya, Michio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^e Maritime Safety Agency   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERMEDIATE WATER MASS; VORTICITY; WATER MASS;

GULF OF ALASKA; SEA OF OKHOTSK;

EID: 0033675162     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jc900304     Document Type: Article

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