Meridional mixing of water masses in the Kuroshio Extension: Origins of North Pacific Intermediate Water anomalies

dc.contributor.author	Shomshor, Anton K. G.
dc.date.accessioned	2014-01-02T17:59:33Z
dc.date.available	2014-01-02T17:59:33Z
dc.date.issued	2013-06
dc.description	Senior thesis written for Oceanography 445	en_US
dc.description.abstract	[author abstract] Freshwater layers were discovered at intermediate depths north of the Kuroshio Extension front in February 2013. The anomalous layers of freshwater were determined to have originated in the Sea of Okhotsk, where sea ice and vertical tidal mixing create Okhotsk Sea Mode Water (OSMW). OSMW is the coldest and freshest source of North Pacific Intermediate Water (NPIW) and therefore has a unique temperature, salinity and potential density signature. The Argo floats that observed the largest variations in salinity were tracked by GPS in a circular trajectory, which is indicative that they were moving within an eddy, and compared to satellite altimetry of the region.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	University of Washington School of Oceanography	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1773/24362
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Proceedings from the University of Washington School of Oceanography Senior Thesis, Academic Year 2012-2013
dc.subject	Ocean circulation	en_US
dc.subject	Salinity -- Kuroshio	en_US
dc.subject	Temperature -- Kuroshio	en_US
dc.title	Meridional mixing of water masses in the Kuroshio Extension: Origins of North Pacific Intermediate Water anomalies	en_US
dc.type	Other	en_US

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