Hokkaido Central Fisheries Experimental Station

• Main Author: Andrew D. Samatov
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Okhotsk; Pacific; okhotsk sea
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.359.8974; http://www.pices.int/publications/scientific_reports/Report12/nakata_revf.pdf

The Soya Warm Current is the only supplier of saline subtropical water to the Okhotsk Sea. The Soya Warm Water obtains high density values comparative to NPIW (North Pacific Intermediate Water) by winter cooling, due to its high salinity value, and may influence the intermediate water in the Okhotsk Sea, which is considered as a source water of NPIW. However, as the northern half of the La Perouse Strait (the Soya Strait) belongs to Russia and the southern half to Japan, no observations across the strait have been made except in the period before the World War II. The vertical resolution and spatial coverage of these old observations are very limited, and the accuracy of the measurement is also very limited due to instruments used in those days. The Joint