Variability of the Bering Sea circulation in the period 1992-2010

Journal of Oceanography

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 485-496

  Panteleev, Gleb ^a   Yaremchuk, Max ^b   Luchin, Vladimir ^c   Nechaev, Dmitri ^d   Kukuchi, Takashi ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c IL ICHEV PACIFIC OCEANOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d University of Southern Mississippi   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Aleutian passes; Bering Sea; Inter annual variability; Kinetic energy; Sea surface height; Volume transport

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; KINETIC ENERGY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OCEAN BASIN; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CURRENT; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; VOLUME TRANSPORT;

ALASKAN STREAM; BERING SEA; KAMCHATKA; PACIFIC OCEAN; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84864388724     PISSN: 09168370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10872-012-0113-0     Document Type: Review

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