Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2003
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003georl..30oce10y&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 30, Issue 24, pp. OCE 10-1, CiteID 2291, DOI 10.1029/2003GL018561
Physics
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Oceanography: General, Oceanography: General: Physical And Chemical Properties Of Seawater, Oceanography: General: Water Masses, Oceanography: Physical: General Circulation, Oceanography: Physical: Hydrography
Scientific paper
It has been speculated that the subtropical North Pacific Intermediate Water (NPIW) was formed by a shortcut of Okhotsk Sea source into the western subtropical gyre because this is the geographically shortest distance, and based on incomplete data. This mechanism is contradictory to the distribution of seawater properties, and, dynamically, is inconsistent with a basin-wide distribution of NPIW and associated gyre circulation. A lengthy transpacific pathway has been identified for the transformed NPIW source waters that first enter the eastern subtropical gyre, which is robust in a water-mass age distribution. Using an updated hydrography and a water-mass mixing scheme combining property distribution with flow streamfunction the present study establishes a dynamically self-consistent gyre circulation of NPIW and its pathway from the subpolar formation regions (source) to the Indonesian Throughflow (sink).
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