Bottom water warming along the pathway of lower circumpolar deep water in the Pacific Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 23, 2006, Pages

  Kawano, Takeshi ^a   Fukasawa, Masao ^a   Kouketsu, Shinya ^a   Uchida, Hiroshi ^a   Doi, Toshimasa ^a   Kaneko, Ikuo ^a   Aoyama, Michio ^b   Schneider, Wolfgang ^c  

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

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF WATER; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEAWATER;

BOTTOM WATER WARMING; LOWER CIRCUMPOLAR DEEP WATER;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BOTTOM WATER; CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; DEEP WATER; HEATING; HYDROGRAPHY; NUMERICAL MODEL; WARMING;

ANTARCTICA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 34250755627     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027933     Document Type: Article

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