Water mass structure of warm and cold anticyclonic eddies in the western boundary region of the subarctic North Pacific

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2624-2642

  Itoh, Sachihiko ^a   Yasuda, Ichiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eddies; North Pacific Ocean; Water masses

Indexed keywords

ANTICYCLONIC EDDIES; CORE STRUCTURE; EDDIES; HEAT CONTENTS; INTERMEDIATE LAYERS; ISOPYCNAL SURFACES; KAMCHATKA; KURIL ISLAND; KUROSHIO EXTENSION; NORTH PACIFIC; NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; SATELLITE ALTIMETER DATA; STUDY AREAS; VERTICAL PROFILE; WATER MASS; WATER MASS STRUCTURE; WATER MASSES; WESTERN BOUNDARY; WESTERN SUBARCTIC GYRE;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; CLIMATOLOGY; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEAN HABITATS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

SALINE WATER;

COLD POOL; EDDY; INTERMEDIATE WATER; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; VOLUME TRANSPORT; WARM POOL; WATER EXCHANGE;

KUROSHIO EXTENSION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 79251468726     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO4475.1     Document Type: Article

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