2006, Oceanography 19(3):32–49, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2006.42

Japan/East Sea Water Masses and Their Relation
to the Sea's Circulation

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Lynne D. Talley | Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

Dong-Ha Min | Marine Science Institute, University of Texas at Austin, Port Aransas, TX, USA

Vyacheslav B. Lobanov | V.I. Il'ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia

Vladimir A. Luchin | V.I. Il'ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia

Vladimir I. Ponomarev | V.I. Il'ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia

Anatoly N. Salyuk | V.I. Il'ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia

Andrey Y. Shcherbina | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA

Pavel Y. Tishchenko | Laboratory of Hydrochemistry, V.I. Il'ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia

Igor Zhabin | V.I. Il'ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia

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The Japan/East Sea is a major anomaly in the ventilation and overturn picture of the Pacific Ocean. The North Pacific is well known to be nearly unventilated at intermediate and abyssal depths, reflected in low oxygen concentration at 1000 m (Figure 1). (High oxygen indicates newer water in more recent contact with the atmosphere. Oxygen declines as water "ages" after it leaves the sea surface mainly because of bacterial respiration.) Even the small production of North Pacific Intermediate Water in the Okhotsk Sea (Talley, 1991; Shcherbina et al., 2003) and the tiny amount of new bottom water encountered in the deep Bering Sea (Warner and Roden, 1995) have no obvious impact on the overall oxygen distribution at 1000 m and below, down to 3500 m, which is the approximate maximum depth of the Bering, Okhotsk, and Japan/East Seas.

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Talley, L.D., D.-H. Min, V.B. Lobanov, V.A. Luchin, V.I. Ponomarev, A.N. Salyuk, A.Y Shcherbina, P.Y. Tishchenko, and I. Zhabin. 2006. Japan/East Sea water masses and their relation to the sea's circulation. Oceanography 19(3):32–49, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2006.42.

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