Ventilation of the North Pacific subtropical pycnocline and mode water formation

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 285-297

  Suga, Toshio ^a,b   Aoki, Yoshikazu ^a   Saito, Hiroko ^a   Hanawa, Kimio ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Mixed layer; Mode water; North Pacific subtropical gyre; Permanent pycnocline; Subduction; Ventilation; Water mass

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTATION THEORY; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; SURFACE WATERS;

MIXED LAYER; MODE WATER; NORTH PACIFIC SUBTROPICAL GYRE; WATER MASS;

VENTILATION;

CLIMATOLOGY; HYDROGRAPHY; MIXED LAYER; MODE WATER; PYCNOCLINE; VENTILATION; WATER MASS; WIND STRESS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 44749093995     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2006.12.005     Document Type: Article

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