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ON THE OXYGEN SUPPLY OF THE DEEP PACIFIC OCEAN 1
Author(s) -
Weyl Peter K.
Publication year - 1965
Publication title -
limnology and oceanography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 197
eISSN - 1939-5590
pISSN - 0024-3590
DOI - 10.4319/lo.1965.10.2.0215
Subject(s) - oxygen , inflow , outflow , apparent oxygen utilisation , environmental science , oceanography , latitude , deep ocean water , limiting oxygen concentration , water mass , geology , seawater , chemistry , organic chemistry , geodesy
The existence of an oxygen minimum layer in the Pacific Ocean precludes vertical diffusion of oxygen from the surface to the deeper water. To maintain the known oxygen content, oxygen used in the deep water must be replenished by an inflow of relatively oxygen‐rich water into the Pacific Ocean at high southern latitudes and an outflow of water with lower oxygen concentrations across the oxygen minimum surface. An estimate of the average rate of oxygen consumption gives a value for this flow of about 3 × 10 6 m 3 /sec.