Aug 18,2021

Subtropical Mode Water in a recent persisting Kuroshio large-meander period: part I—formation and advection over the entire distribution region

Eitarou Oka, Hatsumi Nishikawa, Shusaku Sugimoto, Bo Qiu & Niklas SchneiderPublished in Journal of Oceanography, June 2021Since August 2017, the Kuroshio has taken a large-meander (LM) path, which has forced the Kuro...

Aug 04,2021

Half-Century of Scientific Advancements Since the Cooperative Study of the Kuroshio and Adjacent Regions (CSK) Programme - Need for a new Kuroshio Research

Kentaro Ando, Xiaopei Lin, Cesar Villanoy, Mikhail Danchenkov, Jae-Hak Lee, Hui-Jun He, Qian Liu, Yang Liu, Vyacheslav Lobanov, Xiao-Lin Ma, Hanung Agus Mulyadi, Akira Nagano, Jin-Ling Ren, Augy Syahailatua, Yongjun Tian...

Jul 29,2021

Future changes to the upper ocean Western Boundary Currents across two generations of climate models

Alex Sen Gupta, Annette Stellema, Gabriel M. Pontes, Andréa S. Taschetto, Adriana Vergés, and Vincent RossiPublished in Scientific Reports, May 2021Western Boundary Currents (WBCs) are important for...

Jul 09,2021

Drivers and impacts of the most extreme marine heatwaves events

Alex Sen Gupta, Mads Thomsen, Jessica A. Benthuysen, Alistair J. Hobday, Eric Oliver, Lisa V. Alexander, Michael T. Burrows, Markus G. Donat, Ming Feng, Neil J. Holbrook, Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Pippa J. Moore, Regina...

Jul 06,2021

A Strong Sub-Thermocline Intrusion of the North Equatorial Subsurface Current Into the Makassar Strait in 2016–2017

Mingting Li, Dongliang Yuan, Arnold L. Gordon, Laura K. Gruenburg, Xiang Li, Rui Li, Xueli Yin, Ya Yang, Corry Corvianatie, Jun Wei, Song YangPublished in Geophysical Research Letters, APR 2021The poorly resolved pathway...

Jul 05,2021

The carbonate system of the northern South China Sea: Seasonality and exchange with the western North Pacific

Elliott G. Roberts, Minhan Dai, Zhimian Cao, Weidong Zhai, Liguo Guo, Samuel S.P. Shen, Chuanjun DuPublished in Progress in Oceanography, FEB 2021Using a most comprehensive, high quality, high-resolution dataset for any ...

Jun 29,2021

Deep pacific circulation: New insights on pathways through the Solomon Sea

Germineaud, C., Cravatte, S.; Sprintall, J.; Alberty, M. S.; Grenier, M.;Ganachaud, A.Published in DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I, MAY 2021In the South Pacific Ocean, upper and lower Circumpolar Deep Water (UCDW and LCDW, resp...

Jun 07,2021

Four Types of Baroclinic Instability Waves in the Global Oceans and the Implications for the Vertical Structure of Mesoscale Eddies

Ling Feng, Chuanyu Liu, Armin Köhl, Detlef Stammer, Fan WangPublished in Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, February 2021Surface mesoscale eddies are ubiquitous in the world’s oceans and are beli...