Dec 23,2021

Moored Observations of Currents and Water Mass Properties between Talaud and Halmahera Islands at the Entrance of the Indonesian Seas

Xiang Li, Dongliang Yuan, Yao Li, Zheng Wang, Jing Wang, Xiaoyue Hu, Ya Yang, Corry Corvianawatie, Dewi Surinati6, Asep Sandra Budiman, Ahmad Bayhaqi, Praditya Avianto, Edi Kusmanto, Priyadi Dwi Santoso, Adi Purwandana, ...

Nov 29,2021

Period-Lengthening of the Mindanao Current Variability From the Long-Term Tide Gauge Sea Level Measurements

Xiao Chen, Bo Qiu, Shuiming Chen, Yiquan QiPublished in Journal of Geophysical Research, July 2021Long-term tide gauge sea level data from 1969 to 2014 at Davao (7.08°N, 125.63°E) and Malakal (7. 33&d...

Nov 02,2021

Time-Varying Upper Ocean Circulation and Control of Coral Bleaching in the Western Tropical Pacific

Bo Qiu, Patrick L. Colin, Shuiming ChenPublished in Geophysical Research Letter, July 2021The western tropical Pacific Ocean (WTPO) features complicated ocean circulation systems and has the warmest world open-ocean wate...

Nov 02,2021

Pacific North Equatorial Current bifurcation latitude and Kuroshio Current shifts since the Last Glacial Maximum inferred from a Sulu Sea thermocline reconstruction

Thomas L.Weiss, Braddock K.Linsley, Arnold L. GordonPublished in Quaternary Science Reviews, July 2021The meridional migration of the bifurcation latitude of the Pacific North Equatorial Current (NEC) in the western boun...

Oct 22,2021

Decadal climate variability in the tropical Pacific: Characteristics, causes, predictability, and prospects

Scott Power, Matthieu Lengaigne, Antonietta Capotondi, Myriam Khodri, Jérôme Vialard, Beyrem Jebri, Eric Guilyardi, Shayne McGregor, Jong-Seong Kug, Matthew Newman, Michael J. McPhaden, Gerald Meehl,...

Sep 29,2021

Observed strong subsurface marine heatwaves in the tropical western Pacific Ocean

Shijian Hu, Shihan Li, Ying Zhang, Cong Guan, Yan Du, Ming Feng, Kentaro Ando, Fan Wang, Andreas Schiller and Dunxin HuPublished in Environmental Research Letters, SEP 2021Marine heatwaves (MHWs), which are discrete extr...

Sep 23,2021

Pathways, Volume Transport, and Seasonal Variability of the Lower Deep Limb of the Pacific Meridional Overturning Circulation at the Yap-Mariana Junction

Jianing Wang, Fan Wang*, Youyu Lu, Qiang Ma, Larry J. Pratt and Zhixiang ZhangPublished in Frontiers in Marine ScienceThe lower deep branch of the Pacific Meridional Overturning Circulation (L-PMOC) is responsible for th...

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...