Warm and saline water transport to the North Pacific subarctic region: World Ocean Circulation Experiment and Subarctic Gyre Experiment data analysis

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 106, Issue C10, 2001, Pages 22131-22141

  Ueno, Hiromichi ^a   Yasuda, Ichiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOPYCNAL LAYER; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

(NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0035175583     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000jc000457     Document Type: Article

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