@article{oai:ir.kagoshima-u.ac.jp:00004611,
 author = {YUWAKI, Yasutaka and NISHI, Tooru and MASUMITSU, Sunao and HIGASHI, Masataka},
 journal = {鹿児島大学水産学部紀要=Memoirs of Faculty of Fisheries Kagoshima University},
 month = {2016-10-27},
 note = {Oceanographic observations using XBT and CTD system were carried out in the West
ern Tropical Pacific Ocean in November of 1989.
A sharp thermocline whose core temperature of 20°C was found at depths between 100
and 300m in the region from the equator to lat. 15°-00'N. From the region at lat.
15°-00'N toward the north, the thermocline divided into an upper and a lower thermoclines.
The Subtropical Mode Water was found at depths between 200 and 400m between
these thermoclines. The subsurface saline water with salinity more than 34.70‰, the
North Pacific Tropical Water, exists in the thermocline depth and it extended as far
south as about lat. 06°-30'N near the southern limit of the North Equatorial Current.
The salinity minimum water with salinity lower than 34.40‰, the North Pacific Intermediate
Water, extended from the north to south at depths between 500 and 800m. The transition
zone between the Western North Pacific Central Water and the Pacific Equatorial Water
becomes shallower toward the equator from high latitude and decreased in thickness.},
 pages = {67--79},
 title = {A Long Oceanographic Section from Kyushu, Japan to the Equator, 145°E in November 1989},
 volume = {39},
 year = {}
}