A new climatology of the Okhotsk Sea derived from the FERHRI database

Journal of Oceanography

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 869-886

  Uehara, Hiroki ^a   Kruts, Andrey A ^b   Volkov, Yuriy N ^b   Nakamura, Tomohiro ^a   Ono, Tsuneo ^c,d   Mitsudera, Humio ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Far Eastern Regional Hydrometeorological Research Institute   (Russian Federation)

^c FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^d FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hydrographic climatology; Intermediate layer; Okhotsk Sea; Russian data; Temperature minimum water

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATOLOGY; DATABASE; INTERMEDIATE WATER; MIXED LAYER; SALINITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; WATER TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEA OF OKHOTSK;

EID: 84870352759     PISSN: 09168370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10872-012-0147-3     Document Type: Article

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