North Pacific Equatorial Water (NPEW)

North Pacific Equatorial Water (NPEW)

In physical oceanography, a water mass formed at the boundary between the subtropical gyres via mixing in the Equatorial Countercurrent and the Equatorial Undercurrent. NPEW is a mixture of WNPCW and SPEW. This combination of formation process and ancestral water masses makes NPEW one of the few water masses not formed through air-sea interaction.

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