Multidecadal trends of oxygen and their controlling factors in the western North Pacific

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 935-956

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

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

dissolved oxygen; ocean deoxygenation; ocean warming; western North Pacific

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DECADAL VARIATION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; GLOBAL WARMING; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; OXYGEN MINIMUM LAYER; SOLUBILIZATION; TRANSITION ZONE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84939257749     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: 19449224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GB005065     Document Type: Article

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