1. Foreword

   • Masaki Takematsu

   Foreword Pages: 101 - 101

2. Basin-To-Basin and Year-To-Year Variation of Temperature and Salinity Characteristics in the East Sea (Sea of Japan)

   • Kuh Kim
   • Young-Gyu Kim
   • Yuri Volkov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 103 - 109

3. The Japan Sea Intermediate Water; Its Characteristics and Circulation

   • Tomoharu Senjyu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 111 - 122

4. Intermediate Waters in the East/Japan Sea

   • Young-Gyu Kim
   • Kuh Kim

   OriginalPaper Pages: 123 - 132

5. Circulation and Mixing of Water Masses of Tatar Strait and the Northwestern Boundary Region of the Japan Sea

   • Stephen C. Riser
   • Mark J. Warner
   • Gennady I. Yurasov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 133 - 156

6. The Air-Sea Exchange of CO2 in the East Sea (Japan Sea)

   • Dong-Chan Oh
   • Mi-Kyung Park
   • Kyung-Ryul Kim

   OriginalPaper Pages: 157 - 169

7. Monthly Variations of Water Masses in the Yellow and East China Seas, November 6, 1998

   • H. B. Hur
   • G. A. Jacobs
   • W. J. Teague

   OriginalPaper Pages: 171 - 184

8. The Taiwan-Tsushima Warm Current System: Its Path and the Transformation of the Water Mass in the East China Sea

   • Atsuhiko Isobe

   OriginalPaper Pages: 185 - 195

9. Long-Term Variations of Potential Temperature and Dissolved Oxygen of the Japan Sea Proper Water

   • Hideto Minami
   • Yuji Kano
   • Kan Ogawa

   OriginalPaper Pages: 197 - 205

10. Direct Measurements of Deep Currents in the Northern Japan Sea

    • Masaki Takematsu
    • Zentaro Nagano
    • Yuri Volkov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 207 - 216

11. The Current Structure of the Tsushima Warm Current along the Japanese Coast

    • Hideaki Hase
    • Jong-Hwan Yoon
    • Wataru Koterayama

    OriginalPaper Pages: 217 - 235

12. Observations of Eddies in the Japan Basin Interior

    • Masaki Takematsu
    • Alexander G. Ostrovski
    • Zentaro Nagano

    OriginalPaper Pages: 237 - 246

13. Effects of Eddy Variability on the Circulation of the Japan/East Sea

    • G. A. Jacobs
    • P. J. Hogan
    • K. R. Whitmer

    OriginalPaper Pages: 247 - 256

14. Annual and Seasonal Variations of the Sea Surface Heat Fluxes in the East Asian Marginal Seas

    • Jungyul Na
    • Jangwon Seo
    • Heung-Jae Lie

    OriginalPaper Pages: 257 - 270

15. Spatial and Temporal Scale Variations of Sea Surface Temperature in the East Sea Using NOAA/AVHRR Data

    • Kyung-Ae Park
    • Jong Yul Chung

    OriginalPaper Pages: 271 - 288

16. Statistics of Wind and Waves off Tsuyazaki, Fukuoka, in the Eastern Tsushima Strait

    • Akira Masuda
    • Tadao Kusaba
    • Michiyoshi Ishibashi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 289 - 305

17. Winds and Waves in the Yellow and East China Seas: A Comparison of Spaceborne Altimeter Measurements and Model Results

    • Paul A. Hwang
    • Steven M. Bratos
    • Donald T. Resio

    OriginalPaper Pages: 307 - 325

18. A Numerical Modeling of the Upper and the Intermediate Layer Circulation in the East Sea

    • Cheol-Ho Kim
    • Jong-Hwan Yoon

    OriginalPaper Pages: 327 - 345

19. Large Eddy Simulation of Open Ocean Deep Convection with Application to the Deep Water Formation in the East Sea (Japan Sea)

    • Y. Noh
    • C. J. Jang
    • J-.W. Kim

    OriginalPaper Pages: 347 - 367

20. Formation and Movement of the ESIW as Modeled by MICOM

    • Kuk Jin Kim
    • Young Ho Seung

    OriginalPaper Pages: 369 - 382