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The field data show that the ventilation of waters in the Sea of Okhotsk occurs the year round as a cyclic process and consists of several phases. During the initial phase, the shelf waters enter the offshore subsurface layers. Later, they appear at intermediate depths and spread southward as cold intrusions mixing with surrounding waters on their way. During the last phase of the cycle, the shelf waters do not penetrate the deep-sea layers, and in the vertical structure of temperature field near the northeast coast of Sakhalin, a local phenomenon of “warm” dichothermal layer is observed.
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Original Russian Text © V.A. Sosnin, P.Ya. Tishchenko, A.N. Salyuk, N. Biebow, 2008, published in Meteorologiya i Gidrologiya, 2008, No. 2, pp. 70–78.
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Sosnin, V.A., Tishchenko, P.Y., Salyuk, A.N. et al. “Warm” dichothermal layer in the Sea of Okhotsk. Russ. Meteorol. Hydrol. 33, 106–111 (2008). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068373908020076
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