Enhanced ventilation in the Okhotsk Sea through tidal mixing at the Kuril Straits

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 425-448

  Nakamura, Tomohiro ^a,c   Toyoda, Takahiro ^b   Ishikawa, Yoichi ^b   Awaji, Toshiyuki ^a,b  

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

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

North Pacific intermediate water; Okhotsk Sea; Subduction; Tidal mixing

Indexed keywords

MIXING; TIDES; VORTEX FLOW;

NORTH PACIFIC INTERMEDIATE WATER; OKHOTSK SEA; SUBDUCTION; TIDAL MIXING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MIXING; TIDE; VENTILATION; WATER MASS;

EURASIA; KURIL STRAIT; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 33644904039     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2005.12.006     Document Type: Article

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