Variation in the sea ice coverage of the Sea of Okhotsk Sea and the southward extension of the coastal Oyashio Current (abstract)

• Main Authors: Kunio Rikiishi, Jun Takahashi
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Department of Earth Sciences, Hirosaki University/Department of Earth Sciences, Hirosaki University 1993
• Subjects: Okhotsk; Oyashio; aleutian low; okhotsk sea; Polar meteorology and glaciology; Proceedings of the NIPR Symposium on Polar Meteorology and Glaciology; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=3804; http://id.nii.ac.jp/1291/00003804/; https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=3804&item_no=1&attribute_id=18&file_no=1

Interactions between the atmosphere, ocean, and sea ice in the Far East region have been studied by analyzing the 5-day average data of air temperature, surface pressure, coastal sea level, and sea ice coverage of the Sea of Okhotsk in the period 1978-1990. In the discussion of sea ice formation, in...