Vertical structure of North Pacific mode waters

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 57, Issue 13-14, 2010, Pages 1152-1160

  Toyama, Katsuya ^a   Suga, Toshio ^a,b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Argo; Diffusion; Gradients; Mode water; North Pacific; Water properties

Indexed keywords

ARGO; CENTRAL MODE WATERS; CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA; DIFFUSION GRADIENTS; DISTRIBUTION AREA; DISTRIBUTION OF WATER; DOUBLE-DIFFUSIVE CONVECTION; HIGH HOMOGENEITY; INHOMOGENEITIES; MODIFICATION MECHANISM; NORTH PACIFIC; POTENTIAL DENSITY; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SUBTROPICAL MODE WATERS; TRANSITION REGIONS; TURNER ANGLE; VERTICAL GRADIENTS; VERTICAL STRUCTURES; WATER MASS; WATER PROCESS; WATER PROPERTIES;

GRAPHIC METHODS; OCEAN HABITATS; OCEANOGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES;

SALINE WATER;

DATA INTERPRETATION; DIFFUSION; FINGERING; HISTOGRAM; HOMOGENEITY; MODE WATER; OCEANIC CONVECTION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SALINITY; VERTICAL PROFILE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 77953129810     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2009.12.004     Document Type: Article

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