Possible mechanisms of decadal-scale variation in PO4 concentration in the western North Pacific

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Tadokoro, Kazuaki ^a   Ono, Tsuneo ^b   Yasuda, Iichiro ^c   Osafune, Satoshi ^c   Shiomoto, Akihiro ^d   Sugisaki, Hiroya ^e  

^a FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^b FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

^e FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMATION RATES; KUROSHIO; MESOZOOPLANKTON; OKHOTSK SEA; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; TIDAL CYCLE; TWO LAYERS; WATER EXCHANGE; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

BIOMASS; OCEAN ENGINEERING;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DECADAL VARIATION; INTERMEDIATE WATER; PHOSPHATE; WATER EXCHANGE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF OKHOTSK;

NEOCALANUS PLUMCHRUS;

EID: 67449161320     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037327     Document Type: Article

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