Jul 24,2020

Indian Ocean Dipole in CMIP5 and CMIP6: characteristics, biases, and links to ENSO

Published in Scientific Reports, 13 July 2020Accurately representing the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) is crucial for reliable climate predictions and future projections. However, El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENS...

Jul 23,2020

Structure and dynamics of the Pacific North Equatorial Subsurface Current

Published in Scientific Reports, July 16 2020The North Equatorial Subsurface Current (NESC) has recently been found to flow westward below the North Equatorial Countercurrent in the subsurface layer across the Pacific Oc...

Jul 07,2020

Variability of the Mindanao Current Induced by El Niño Events

Published in JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY, JUNE 2020Historical observations have documented prominent changes of the Mindanao Current (MC) during El Niño events, yet a systematic understanding of how the E...

May 06,2020

Seasonality and Formation of Barrier Layers and Associated Temperature Inversions in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific

Published in JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY, MAR 2020Seasonality and formation of barrier layers (BLs) and associated temperature inversions (TIs) in the eastern tropical North Pacific Ocean were investigated using raw...

Apr 26,2020

Marked coastal warming off Tokai attributable to Kuroshio large meander

Published in Journal of Oceanography, 29 October 2019The Kuroshio takes a large meander (LM) path since summerof 2017 for the first time since the 2004–2005 event and is the sixth LM eventsince 1965. It has been commonly...

Apr 24,2020

Intermediate intraseasonal variability in the western tropical Pacific Ocean: meridional distribution of equatorial Rossby waves influenced by a tilted boundary

Published in Journal of Physical Oceanography 2020Intermediate-depth intraseasonal variability (ISV) at 20-90-day period, as detected in velocity measurements from seven subsurface moorings in the tropical western Pacif...

Mar 26,2020

Moored Observations of Transport and Variability of Halmahera Sea Currents

Published in Journal of Physical Oceanography, February 2020The ocean currents in the Halmahera Sea are studied using a subsurface mooring deployed in the Jailolo Strait from November 2015 to October 2017. The sub-tidal...

Feb 21,2020

Response of Near-Inertial Shear to Wind Stress Curl and Sea Level

Published in Scientific Reports, 31 December 2019Near-inertial waves (NIWs) contain a pronounced portion of shear energy in the internal wave field and is of great importance to deep ocean mixing. However, accurate simul...