Observing mesoscale eddy effects on mode-water subduction and transport in the North Pacific

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Xu, Lixiao ^a   Li, Peiliang ^a   Xie, Shang Ping ^a,b   Liu, Qinyu ^a   Liu, Cong ^a   Gao, Wendian ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; WATER;

ADVECTION; ANTICYCLONE; ARGO; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CLIMATE MODELING; HYDROGRAPH; MAGNITUDE; MESOSCALE EDDY; MODE WATER; OXYGEN; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SUBDUCTION; THERMOCLINE;

ADVECTION; ANTICYCLONIC EDDY; ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FLOW RATE; HYDROGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MESOSCALE EDDY; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; THERMOCLINE; TRANSPORT KINETICS; WATER FLOW; WATER TRANSPORT;

JAPAN; KUROSHIO EXTENSION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84956668640     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10505     Document Type: Article

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