Sverdrup balance and the cyclonic gyre in the Sea of Okhotsk

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 513-525

  Ohshima, Kay I ^a,c   Simizu, Daisuke ^a   Itoh, Motoyo ^b   Mizuta, Genta ^a   Fukamachi, Yasushi ^a   Riser, Stephen C ^c   Wakatsuchi, Masaaki ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; STORMS; STREAM FLOW; WIND STRESS;

BOUNDARY CURRENTS; EAST SAKHALIN CURRENT (ESC);

OCEAN CURRENTS;

GYRE; SVERDRUP TRANSPORT; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT; WIND STRESS; WIND-DRIVEN CURRENT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF OKHOTSK;

EID: 1842760460     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2004)034<0513:SBATCG>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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