Decadal salinity variation in the western North Pacific correlated with the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation

Hitoshi Kaneko1, Takeshi Okunishi1, Shinya Kouketsu2, Sachihiko Itoh3, Takashi Setou4, Hiroshi Kuroda5 and Yugo Shimizu6, (1)Tohoku National Fisheries Research Institute, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Shiogama, Japan, (2)JAMSTEC, Yokosuka, Japan, (3)Atmos. & Ocean Res. Institute, Kashiwa, Japan, (4)National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Japan, (5)Hokkaido National Fisheries Research Institute, Kushiro, Japan, (6)National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Kanazawa-Ku, Yokoham, Japan