Eastern Pacific oxygen minimum zones: Supply paths and multidecadal changes

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Stramma, Lothar ^a   Johnson, Gregory C ^b   Firing, Eric ^c   Schmidtko, Sunke ^a,b  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; DOPPLER EFFECT; TIME SERIES;

A-DENSITY; ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILERS; EASTERN PACIFIC; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; EQUATORIAL UNDERCURRENTS; OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; OXYGEN CONTENT; OXYGEN FLUXES; OXYGEN MINIMUM ZONE; WESTWARD FLOW;

OXYGEN SUPPLY;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; CLIMATE MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY; OXYGEN MINIMUM LAYER; TIME SERIES; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; ZONAL FLOW;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

EID: 77956839006     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005976     Document Type: Article

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