Balance of volume transports between horizontal circulation and meridional overturn in the North Pacific subarctic region

Journal of Oceanography

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 439-451

  Kuragano, Tsurane ^a   Kamachi, Masafumi ^a  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Emperor Seamounts; Horizontal circulation; Kurils; Meridional overturn; Subarctic North Pacific; Western intensification

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC MOTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; OVERTURN; SEAMOUNT; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VOLUME TRANSPORT; OCEANIC CIRCULATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 2942600996     PISSN: 09168370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JOCE.0000038060.64499.13     Document Type: Article

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