1. Monitoring the Kuroshio Extension with Dynamically Constrained Synthesis of the Acoustic Tomography, Satellite Altimeter and in situ Data

   • Konstantin V. Lebedev
   • Max Yaremchuk
   • Gang Yuan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 751 - 763

2. Altimeter's Capability of Reconstructing Realistic Eddy Fields Using Space-Time Optimum Interpolation

   • Tsurane Kuragano
   • Masafumi Kamachi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 765 - 781

3. Upper Ocean Sensitivity to Wind Forcing in the South China Sea

   • E. Joseph Metzger

   OriginalPaper Pages: 783 - 798

4. The Increase of Biogenic Sulfate Aerosol and Particle Number in Marine Atmosphere over the Northwestern North Pacific

   • Atsushi Ooki
   • Kazuhiko Miura
   • Mitsuo Uematsu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 799 - 807

5. Loss Processes of Sinking Fecal Pellets of Zooplankton in the Mesopelagic Layers of the Antarctic Marginal Ice Zone

   • Hidekatsu Suzuki
   • Hiroshi Sasaki
   • Mitsuo Fukuchi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 809 - 818

6. A New Empirical Formula for the Aerodynamic Roughness of Water Surface Waves

   • Koji Ueno
   • Makoto Deushi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 819 - 831

7. Current Structure and Behavior of the River Plume in Suo-Nada

   • Shinya Magome
   • Atsuhiko Isobe

   OriginalPaper Pages: 833 - 843

8. Distribution of Overturn Induced by Internal Tides and Thorpe Scale in Uchiura Bay

   • Yujiro Kitade
   • Masaji Matsuyama
   • Jiro Yoshida

   OriginalPaper Pages: 845 - 850

9. Preface

   • Masao Fukasawa

   Preface Pages: 853 - 854

10. Transport of Oyashio Water across the Subarctic Front into the Mixed Water Region and Formation of NPIW

    • Masachika Masujima
    • Ichiro Yasuda
    • Tomowo Watanabe

    OriginalPaper Pages: 855 - 869

11. Seasonal Changes in Oceanic pCO₂ in the Oyashio Region from Winter to Spring

    • Takashi Midorikawa
    • Sonoki Iwano
    • Hisayuki Y. Inoue

    OriginalPaper Pages: 871 - 882

12. Re-Estimation of Annual Anthropogenic Carbon Input from Oyashio into North Pacific Intermediate Water

    • Tsuneo Ono
    • Katsuyuki Sasaki
    • Ichiro Yasuda

    OriginalPaper Pages: 883 - 891

13. Intermediate Circulation in the Northwestern North Pacific Derived from Subsurface Floats

    • Takanori Iwao
    • Masahiro Endoh
    • Toshiya Nakano

    OriginalPaper Pages: 893 - 904

14. Formation, Distribution and Volume Transport of the North Pacific Intermediate Water Studied by Repeat Hydrographic Observations

    • Takashi Miyao
    • Koichi Ishikawa

    OriginalPaper Pages: 905 - 919

15. Skewed Occurrence Frequency of Water Temperature and Salinity in the Subarctic Regions

    • Sachiko Oguma
    • Toru Suzuki
    • Yutaka Nagata

    OriginalPaper Pages: 921 - 929

16. State Estimation of the North Pacific Ocean by a Four-Dimensional Variational Data Assimilation Experiment

    • Toshiyuki Awaji
    • Shuhei Masuda
    • Tomohiro Nakamura

    OriginalPaper Pages: 931 - 943

17. Decadal Variability of Subsurface Temperature in the Central North Pacific

    • Satoshi Sugimoto
    • Takashi Yoshida
    • Tadashi Ando

    OriginalPaper Pages: 945 - 955