The effects of Tsushima Warm Current on the interdecadal variability of the East/Japan Sea thermohaline circulation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Park, Young Gyu ^a  

^a Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEAWATER; WATER WAVES;

ATMOSPHERIC COOLING; DEEP CONVECTION; THERMOHALINE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CIRCULATION MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; OCEANIC CONVECTION; OCEANIC CURRENT; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; THROUGHFLOW;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN; TSUSHIMA CURRENT;

EID: 34249863366     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL029210     Document Type: Article

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