Modification of North Pacific Intermediate Water around Mixed Water Region

Journal of Oceanography

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 211-224

  Inoue, Ryuichiro ^a   Yoshida, Jiro ^a   Hiroe, Yutaka ^b   Komatsu, Kousei ^b   Kawasaki, Kiyoshi ^b   Yasuda, Ichiro ^c  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cabbeling; Double diffusive convection; Mixed Water Region; Mixing; Neutral surfaces; North Pacific Intermediate Water

Indexed keywords

DENSITY; DOUBLE DIFFUSION; INTERMEDIATE WATER; MIXING; NUMERICAL MODEL; WATER MASS;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0038755456     PISSN: 09168370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025595322497     Document Type: Article

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