ADCP-referenced Kuroshio and Oyashio water transports for North Pacific intermediate water formation

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 220-233

  Shimizu, Yugo ^a   Yasuda, Ichiro ^b   Okuda, Kuniaki ^a   Hanawa, Kimio ^c   Ito, Shin Ichi ^a  

^a FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY OF LIQUIDS; SHIPS; WATER WAVES;

GEOSTROPHIC CIRCULATION;

WATERWAY TRANSPORTATION;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; INTERMEDIATE WATER; VOLUME TRANSPORT; WATER MASS; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

(NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0141452239     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2003)033<0220:ARKAOW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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