May 06,2021

Cross-basin differences in the nutrient assimilation characteristics of induced phytoplankton blooms in the subtropical Pacific waters

Fuminori Hashihama, Hiroaki Saito, Taketoshi Kodama, Saori Yasui-Tamura, Jota Kanda, Iwao Tanita, Hiroshi Ogawa, E. Malcolm S. Woodward, Philip W. Boyd, and Ken FuruyaPublished in Biogeosciences, FEB 2021To better unders...

Apr 29,2021

Vertical fluxes of nutrients enhanced by strong turbulence and phytoplankton bloom around the ocean ridge in the Luzon Strait

Eisuke Tsutsumi, Takeshi Matsuno, Sachihiko Itoh, Jing Zhang, Tomoharu Senjyu, Akie Sakai, Keunjong Lee, Daigo Yanagimoto, Ichiro Yasuda, Hiroshi Ogawa & Cesar VillanoyPublished in Scientific Reports, OCT 2020Steep o...

Apr 15,2021

The role of tides in bottom water export from the western Ross Sea

Melissa M. Bowen, Denise Fernandez, Aitana Forcen-Vazquez, Arnold L. Gordon, Bruce Huber, Pasquale Castagno & Pierpaolo Falco Published in Scientific Reports, JAN 2021Approximately 25% of Antarctic Bottom Water has i...

Mar 30,2021

Subsurface Evolution and Persistence of Marine Heatwaves in the Northeast Pacific

H. A. Scannell, G. C. Johnson, L. Thompson, J. M. Lyman, S. C. RiserPublished in Geophysical Research Letter, NOV 2020The reappearance of a northeast Pacific marine heatwave (MHW) sounded alarms in late summer 2019 for a...

Mar 29,2021

Rectification of the intraseasonal SST variability by the diurnal cycle of SST revealed by the global tropical moored buoy array

Yunwei Yan, Lei Zhang, Yi Yu, Changlin Chen, Jingyuan Xi, Fei ChaiPublished in Geophysical Research Letters, DEC 2020It has been suggested that the intraseasonal sea surface temperature (SST) variability in the tropical ...

Mar 25,2021

Enhanced Winter Carbon Export Observed by BGC‐Argo in the Northwest Pacific Ocean

Xiaogang Xing, Mark L. Wells, Shuangling Chen, Sheng Lin, Fei ChaiPublished in Geophysical Research Letters, OCT 2020The winter‐ and spring‐time mixed‐layer pump (MLP) significantly augments the global carbon transport f...

Mar 22,2021

A limited effect of sub-tropical typhoons on phytoplankton dynamics

Fei Chai, Yuntao Wang, Xiaogang Xing, Yunwei Yan, Huijie Xue, Mark Wells, and Emmanuel BossPublished in Biogeosciences, FEB 2021Typhoons are assumed to stimulate primary ocean production through the upward mixing of nutr...

Mar 11,2021

Coastal Upwelling Events, Salinity Stratification, and Barrier Layer Observed Along the Southwestern Coast of Sumatra

Takanori Horii, Iwao Ueki, Kentaro AndoPublished in Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, NOV 2020Coastal upwelling along the southwestern coast of Sumatra is a seasonal upwelling that occurs in areas of high sea surf...