An extremely turbid intermediate water in the Sea of Okhotsk: Implication for the transport of particulate organic matter in a seasonally ice-bound sea

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 16, 2002, Pages 4-1-4-4

  Nakatsuka, Takeshi ^a   Yoshikawa, Chisato ^a   Toda, Mari ^a   Kawamura, Kimitaka ^a   Wakatsuchi, Masaaki ^a,b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRINES; SEA ICE; TURBIDITY; WATER;

PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER;

GEOPHYSICS;

ENTRAINMENT; INTERMEDIATE WATER; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; SEA ICE; SEASONALITY; TURBIDITY; WATER MASS;

SEA OF OKHOTSK;

EID: 0242586144     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL014029     Document Type: Article

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