Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Science Foundation through Grants OCE9302187 and OCE9818672. D. Zhang greatly appreciates the University of Miami's support through its generous award of the Koczy Fellowship. We thank Bob Malone of Los Alamos National Laboratory for providing the POP modeling results for comparison, and Alison MacDonald of Oregon State University for her initial Hydrobase data in the North Pacific.

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