Exchanges Between the N. Pacific Ocean and Its Marginal Seas

Abstract

It is the long-term goal of the principal investigators of this grant to better understand the circulation of the N. Pacific Ocean and its marginal seas, especially the flow and water masses in the thermocline and above. The objectives of this work are to examine measurements collected in recent years in the western N. Pacific and its marginal seas (Japan Sea, Okhotsk Sea, Bering Sea), and CTD profiles collected from Argo floats, in the context of the NRL high-resolution model of the N. Pacific. We are especially interested in examining the production and spreading of North Pacific Intermediate Water (NPIW) in both the model and the data.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2006
Accession Number
ADA612181

Entities

People

  • Patrick Hogan
  • Stephen Riser

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bering Sea
  • Bodies Of Water
  • Data Sets
  • Databases
  • High Resolution
  • Ice Formation
  • Information Operations
  • Japan Sea
  • Kamchatka Peninsula
  • Landforms
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Okhotsk Sea
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Salinity
  • Sea Ice
  • Water Masses

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Oceanography.