Ekman Transport and Zooplankton Concentration in the North Pacific Ocean

1967 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 581-594 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Percy Wickett
Keyword(s):  
Surface Water ◽  
Bering Sea ◽  
North Pacific ◽  
North Pacific Ocean ◽  
Ekman Transport ◽  
Sampling Area ◽  
The North ◽  
Western Bering Sea ◽  
North And South ◽  
The North Pacific

Annual concentrations of zooplankton off California varied directly, and concentrations in the western Bering Sea varied indirectly with calculated southerly components of Ekman transport in the previous year at 50°N,140°W. This point is in the area in which surface subarctic water and the deeper currents divide north and south. The underlying geostrophic flow requires approximately 1 year to reach each downstream sampling area. Summer concentrations of zooplankton at Ocean Station P, 50°N,145°W, varied with southerly and westerly components at 50°N,160°W during the previous winter. Fifty to sixty per cent of the variance of the annual concentration in zooplankton appears to be due to advection of surface water.

scholarly journals Radiocesium in the western subarctic area of the North Pacific ocean, Bering Sea, and Arctic Ocean in 2015 and 2017

Polar Science ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 228-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuichiro Kumamoto ◽  
Michio Aoyama ◽  
Yasunori Hamajima ◽  
Shigeto Nishino ◽  
Akihiko Murata ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Arctic Ocean ◽  
Bering Sea ◽  
North Pacific ◽  
North Pacific Ocean ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Pacific

Nonrandom distribution of chum salmon stocks in the Bering Sea and the North Pacific Ocean estimated using mitochondrial DNA microarray

2009 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 359-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shogo Moriya ◽  
Shunpei Sato ◽  
Moongeun Yoon ◽  
Tomonori Azumaya ◽  
Shigehiko Urawa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mitochondrial Dna ◽  
Dna Microarray ◽  
Bering Sea ◽  
North Pacific ◽  
Chum Salmon ◽  
North Pacific Ocean ◽  
The North ◽  
Nonrandom Distribution ◽  
The North Pacific ◽  
The Bering Sea

Length–Weight Relations of Pacific Ocean Perch (Sebastes alutus) in the North Pacific Ocean

1974 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 363-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. J. Westrheim ◽  
V. A. Snytko
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Iterative Method ◽  
Bering Sea ◽  
North Pacific ◽  
North Pacific Ocean ◽  
The North ◽  
Empirical Tests ◽  
The North Pacific ◽  
Soviet Research

Length–weight relations for Pacific ocean perch (Sebastes alutus) were determined by the iterative method from data collected aboard Soviet research vessels in the North Pacific Ocean, from Kamchatka, USSR (53°N lat), to Oregon, USA (44°N lat). Interarea values of a (in W = aLb) ranged from 0.0076028 (females, E Bering Sea) to 0.054000 (females, W Bering Sea); and b, from 2.6345 (females, W Bering Sea) to 3.1694 (females, E Bering Sea). Empirical tests indicated that individual area formulae generally produced acceptable calculated weights. Interarea comparisons of calculated weights provided additional evidence of the existence of discrete stocks and two subspecies of Pacific ocean perch in the North Pacific Ocean.

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