Climate variability in the North Pacific thermocline diagnosed from oxygen measurements: An update based on the U.S. CLIVAR/CO2 Repeat Hydrography cruises

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Mecking, Sabine ^a   Langdon, Chris ^b   Feely, Richard A ^c   Sabine, Christopher L ^c   Deutsch, Curtis A ^d   Min, Dong Ha ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPARENT OXYGEN UTILIZATIONS; BOUNDARY REGIONS; CLIMATE VARIABILITIES; CLIMATOLOGICAL DATUM; NORTH PACIFIC; NORTH PACIFIC OCEANS; OXYGEN MEASUREMENTS; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATIONS; SECTION ANALYSIS; SUBPOLAR GYRES; SUBTROPICAL GYRES; TIME-SERIES DATUM; WORLD OCEAN CIRCULATION EXPERIMENTS;

CLIMATOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; NAVIGATION; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OXYGEN; STREAM FLOW; TROPICS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; HYDROGRAPHY; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; THERMOCLINE;

NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); UNITED STATES;

EID: 65549088820     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GB003101     Document Type: Article

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