Temporal and spatial variability of noble gas tracers in the North Pacific

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Ito, Taka ^c   Hamme, Roberta C ^b   Emerson, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; GASES; HEAT FLUX; NEON; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SEA LEVEL; STREAM FLOW; SUPERSATURATION; TROPICS;

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; AIR-SEA HEAT FLUX; DIAPYCNAL DIFFUSIVITY; GAS EXCHANGE; GAS FLUX; GLOBAL OCEAN; MIDLATITUDES; NOBLE GAS; NORTH PACIFIC; NUMERICAL MODELS; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; OCEAN MIXING; PHYSICAL PROCESS; SATURATION STATE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION INDEX; SUBTROPICAL THERMOCLINES; SURFACE OCEAN; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TIME VARYING; UNDERSATURATION; UPPER OCEAN; VERTICAL DIFFUSIVITY;

ARGON;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; DIFFUSION; DISSOLVED GAS; EL NINO; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GAS EXCHANGE; HEAT FLUX; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MIXING; NOBLE GAS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SATURATION; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; THERMOCLINE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 80052321828     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006828     Document Type: Article

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