Pathways and variability of the Antarctic Intermediate Water in the western equatorial Pacific Ocean

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 67, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 245-281

  Zenk, Walter ^a   Siedler, Gerold ^a,c   Ishida, Akio ^b   Holfort, Jürgen ^a,d   Kashino, Yuji ^b   Kuroda, Yoshifumi ^b   Miyama, Toru ^c,e   Müller, Thomas J ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

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

Author keywords

Antarctic intermediate water; Bismarck Sea; Equatorial intermediate currents; Equatorial Pacific Ocean; Intermediate circulation; Lagrangian observations; New Guinea coastal undercurrent; Numerical circulation model

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; RESEARCH; SALINE WATER; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATER; BISMARCK SEA; EQUATORIAL INTERMEDIATE CURRENTS; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC OCEAN; INTERMEDIATE CIRCULATION; LAGRANGIAN OBSERVATIONS; NEW GUINEA COASTAL UNDERCURRENT; NUMERICAL CIRCULATION MODEL;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CIRCULATION MODELING; INTERMEDIATE WATER; NUMERICAL MODEL;

BISMARCK SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

EID: 24344444878     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2005.05.003     Document Type: Article

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