Possible source of advected water mass and residence times in the multi-structured Sea of Japan using rare earth elements

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 16, 2006, Pages

  Hatta, Mariko ^a   Zhang, Jing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; SURFACE WATERS;

ADVECTED WATER MASS; GLOBAL OCEANIC CIRCULATION; TSUSHIMA WARM CURRENT (TWC); WATER VOLUME;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BOTTOM WATER; OCEANIC CURRENT; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; RESIDENCE TIME; SURFACE WATER; WATER MASS;

EURASIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIMORYE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEA OF JAPAN; VLADIVOSTOK;

EID: 33845622807     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026537     Document Type: Article

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