Formation region of North Pacific subtropical mode water in the late winter of 2003

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 23, 2003, Pages

  Oka, Eitarou ^a   Suga, Toshio ^a,b  

^a Frontier Observational Res Syst Gl   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; SALINE WATER; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL EFFECTS; OCEAN CURRENTS;

THERMOCLINE DEPTH; KUROSHIO EXTENSION; MIXED LAYER DEPTHS; NORTH PACIFIC; PERMANENT THERMOCLINES; PROFILING FLOAT; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SUBTROPICAL MODE WATERS; UNIFORM TEMPERATURE;

GEOPHYSICS; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS;

MIXED LAYER; PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUBTROPICAL REGION; WATER MASS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 1542545686     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018581     Document Type: Article

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