Deep Flow in the Pacific: Through the Samoan Passage vs. Around the Manihiki Plateau

Lawrence J Pratt1, Gunnar Voet2, Ali Mashayek3, Matthew H Alford2 and Dimitris Menemenlis4, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States