Weakened overturning and tide control the properties of Oyashio Intermediate Water, a key water mass in the North Pacific

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Mensah, Vigan, Ohshima, Kay. I.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
• Subjects: Article; Okhotsk; Oyashio; Pacific; okhotsk sea; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8282869/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34267253; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93901-6

The western subarctic Pacific exhibits major biological productivity fed by the Oyashio Current and its two source waters: Western Subarctic Water, which supplies nutrients from the subarctic Pacific, and cold Okhotsk Sea Intermediate Water (OSIW), which supplies iron from the Sea of Okhotsk. We cre...