Abstract: The Samoan Passage at about 10S, 169W appears to be the major channel through which the deep and abyssal waters flow northward from the South Pacific. The northward flow, Postulated from the distribution of characteristics, ...

Abstract: The large-scale oxygen distribution within the upper 1500 m of the North Pacific Ocean reveals an extra zone of low oxygen near 30?40°N in the east that is not easily compatible with a simple large-scale subtropical ...

Abstract: The waters found within the southwestern Atlantic Ocean extend into it as separate lavers with markedly different characteristics. Along the western boundary the deeper waters, derived from the North Atlantic, are warm, ...

Abstract: The input of bomb tritium into the high-latitude Northern Hemisphere waters has demonstrated the spread of a tracer in three dimensions in the North Pacific Ocean. Subsurface tritium maxima in middle and low latitudes ...

Abstract: The meridional overturning circulation for the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans is computed from absolute geostrophic velocity estimates based on hydrographic data and from climatological Ekman transports. The Atlantic ...