Effects of the anticyclonic eddies on water masses, chemical parameters and chlorophyll distributions in the Oyashio current region

Journal of Oceanography

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 691-701

  Kusakabe, Masashi ^a   Andreev, Andrey ^a,b   Lobanov, Vyacheslav ^b   Zhabin, Igor ^b   Kumamoto, Yuichiro ^a   Murata, Akihiro ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b IL ICHEV PACIFIC OCEANOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Chemical parameters; Eddy; Kuril Islands; North Pacific; Oyashio

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; COASTAL WATER; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; MESOSCALE EDDY; WATER MASS;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0036821372     PISSN: 09168370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022846407495     Document Type: Article

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