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Pacific Ocean

Remarkable features
Surface: 180 000 000 km2
Maximum depth: 10 000 m
Currents: Kuroshio (warm), Humbolt, Oyashio (cold)
Seas: Bering, Japan, China, Okhotsk, Celebes, Yellow sea...
Oscillation phenomena: El Niño/Southern Oscillation, Pacific Decadal Oscillation.

Pacific Ocean in the others pages

  • Mar. 2004: Tuvalu islands under water
  • Jan. 2005: Current heat
  • Aug. 2005: Satellites shed light on the Kon Tiki story
  • Nov. 2007: The ocean is going up and down around the Solomon Islands
  • Apr. 21, 2008 : The cool Australian eddy has become giant
  • Regional trends
  • El Niño
  • Decadal oscillations
  • Currents around the world
  • Tehuantepec eddies
  • Nida 2004
  • Man-Yi 2007
  • Tehuantepec eddies
 
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