Volume transport of the Soya Warm Current revealed by bottom-mounted ADCP and ocean-radar measurement

Journal of Oceanography

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 385-392

  Fukamachi, Yasushi ^a   Tanaka, Iori ^b   Ohshima, Kay I ^a   Ebuchi, Naoto ^a   Mizuta, Genta ^a   Yoshida, Hideo ^b   Takayanagi, Shiro ^c   Wakatsuchi, Masaaki ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Hokkaido Central Fisheries Experiment Station   (Japan)

^c Hokkaido Wakkanai Fisheries Experiment Station   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acoustic Doppler current profiler; Ocean radar; Seasonal variability; Soya Warm Current; Volume transport

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; ESTIMATION METHOD; OCEANIC CURRENT; RADAR; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING (SEASON); VOLUME TRANSPORT; WINTER;

EID: 42649145846     PISSN: 09168370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10872-008-0031-3     Document Type: Article

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