Decrease of dissolved oxygen after the mid-1980s in the western North Pacific subtropical gyre along the 137°E repeat section

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Takatani, Yusuke ^a   Sasano, Daisuke ^a,b   Nakano, Toshiya ^a,b   Midorikawa, Takashi ^b,c   Ishii, Masao ^a,b  

^a JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c Nagasaki Marine Observatory   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DENSITY SURFACES; DISSOLVED OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; DO CONCENTRATION; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; ISOPYCNAL SURFACES; JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCIES; NORTH PACIFIC; OCEAN WARMING; OXYGEN SOLUBILITY; SUBTROPICAL GYRE; SUBTROPICAL MODE WATERS; TEMPORAL TRENDS; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

OCEAN HABITATS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TROPICS;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED OXYGEN; GYRE; INTERMEDIATE WATER; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; METEOROLOGY; OXYGEN MINIMUM LAYER; SOLUBILITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

EID: 84861149091     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GB004227     Document Type: Article

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