Vertical structure of North Pacific mode waters

Katsuya Toyama1, Toshio Suga1,2
1Department of Geophysics, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Aza-Aoba 6-3, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
2Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, 237-0061, Japan

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