supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.2012CB955602);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.41076005 and 41176009)
Based on the temperature and salinity from the Argo profiling floats and altimeter-derived geostrophic velocity anomaly (GVA) data in the western North Pacific during 2002-2011, the North Pacific Subtropical Mode Wate...