Middle to late Holocene changes of the Okhotsk Sea Intermediate Water and their relation to atmospheric circulation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 1-4

  Itaki, Takuya ^a   Ikehara, Ken ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

3030 Marine geology and geophysics: Micropaleontology; 3339 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Ocean atmosphere interactions (0312, 4504); 3344 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Paleoclimatology; 4267 Oceanography: General: Paleoceanography; 4855 Oceanography: Biological and chemical: Plankton

Indexed keywords

BRINES; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGY; SEA ICE;

ALEUTIAN LOW; HOLOCENE CHANGES; MICROBIAL CONTENT; OKHOTSK SEA INTERMEDIATE WATER (OSIW);

SEAWATER;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; HOLOCENE; INTERMEDIATE WATER; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOLARIA; VENTILATION; WIND FORCING;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF OKHOTSK; WORLD;

EID: 14544308836     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021384     Document Type: Article

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