report DOC and DON concentrations measured
in the western Okhotsk Sea during the summer of 2006
and late spring of 2010. They show that DOC may be transported
to intermediate waters (26.7–27.0rh) after being discharged from
the continental shelf in DSW and OSIW. A second transport mechanism
of DOC is diapycnal mixing in the Kuril Basin and the Bussol’
Strait, which results in the transport of DOC to depths below
800 m. They quantitatively evaluated DOC and DON discharge
from the Sea of Okhotsk to the intermediate layer of the Pacific
to be 68–72 TgC/yr and 5.4 TgN/yr, respectively, to which the
transport via diapycnal mixing in the Kuril Basin and the Bussol’
Strait more contributes than the transport via discharge of DSW.