ThePacific Oceanis the largest ocean in the world, providing a wide variety of goods and services to human society. It represents almost half of the world’s ocean area, bordering the coastline of 50 countries or territories (Figure 11.1). Supported by the existence of a wide range of habita...
s characteristic fish. The indigenous birds are particular species of Alcidae. The sea lion, fur seal, sea otter, Pacific right whale, gray whale, and Dall porpoise are the indigenous mammals. Certain species inhabit the waters off both the American and Asiatic coasts of the Pacific Ocean—...
In the 1970s Guam gradually began to move toward representative self-government. The first popularly elected governor ran for office in 1970, and in 1972 Guam was given the right to send one nonvoting delegate (entitled to vote in committees, however) to the U.S. House of Representatives. ...
Hachinohe, city, southeastern Aomori ken (prefecture), northeastern Honshu, Japan. It is situated on an embayment of the Pacific Ocean at the mouth of the Mabechi River in the northern part of the Tōhoku region. Hachinohe was a castle town during the Ed
(a) The spatial pattern of the AMO; the regression of monthly SST onto the first EOF of SST north of 20°S in the Atlantic Ocean from 1880 through January 2015. Contour interval is 0.1 K, positive anomalies are red and the zero contour is in white. (b) The time structure of the AM...
S. et al. Turnover time of fluorescent dissolved organic matter in the dark global ocean. Nat. Commun. 6, 5986 (2015). 21. Tani, H. et al. Iron(III) hydroxide solubility and humic-type fluorescent organic matter in the deep water column of the Okhotsk Sea and the northwestern North ...
52k Accesses 53 Citations 1273 Altmetric Metrics details Abstract The subtropical oceanic gyre in the North Pacific Ocean is currently covered with tens of thousands of tonnes of floating plastic debris, dispersed over millions of square kilometres. A large fraction is composed of fishing nets and ...
is in the US, lies on the Pacific Ocean. It is regarded as the "66.___"as a museum and land park. It has more than eight thousand have taken place in the area since its opening in 1881.68. Some visitors have visited the Museum and Garden when it first opened was intended (打算...
The city is located on the Abukuma Plateau and the alluvial plains of the Natsui and Same rivers, which slope south and east until they reach the Pacific Ocean. The city was created in the mid-1960s when a then much smaller Iwaki city merged with 13 adjacent communities, and it grew to...
Pacific Ocean western boundary currents and the interlinked equatorial Pacific circulation system were among the first currents of these types to be explored by pioneering oceanographers. The widely accepted but poorly quantified importance of these curr