1. Transmission and reflection of planetary and topographic Rossby waves in a two-layer ocean

   • Hiroshi Takeda

   OriginalPaper Pages: 199 - 206

2. Spin-up and spin-down processes of the large cold water mass of the Kuroshio south of Japan

   • Yoshihiko Sekine
   • Haruo Ishii
   • Yoshiaki Toba

   OriginalPaper Pages: 207 - 212

3. A numerical simulation of the distribution of water temperature and salinity in the Seto Inland Sea

   • Mayumi Murakami
   • Yukio Oonishi
   • Hideaki Kunishi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 213 - 224

4. Vertical two-dimensional mechanism of tidal exchange in a bay with a sill-entrance

   • Yoshihiro Mazda

   OriginalPaper Pages: 225 - 234

5. Temporal fluctuations of water temperature in aSargassum forest

   • Teruhisa Komatsu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 235 - 243

6. Variation of the sea surface temperature distribution across the Kuroshio in the Tokara Strait

   • Yutaka Nagata
   • Katsuichi Takeshita

   OriginalPaper Pages: 244 - 258

7. Dynamics of the Kuroshio large meander

   • Ichiro Yasuda
   • Jong -Hwan Yoon
   • Nobuo Suginohara

   OriginalPaper Pages: 259 - 273

8. Interannual variability of the Kuroshio Extension and its relation to the Southern Oscillation/El Niño

   • Toshio Yamagata
   • Yoshiaki Shibao
   • Shin-ichiro Umatanit

   Short Contribution Pages: 274 - 281