Formation regions of Subantarctic Mode Water detected by OFES and Argo profiling floats

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Aoki, Shigeru ^a   Hariyama, Mieko ^a,b   Mitsudera, Humio ^a   Sasaki, Hideharu ^c   Sasai, Yoshikazu ^d  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SUBANTARCTIC MODE WATER;

BATHYMETRY; FLOW OF WATER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TOPOGRAPHY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

MIXED LAYER; MODE WATER; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SUBANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATER;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 34447548546     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL029828     Document Type: Article

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