Simulation of Formation and Spreading of Salinity Minimum Associated with NPIW Using a High-Resolution Model Hiroshi IshizakiIchiro Ishikawa OriginalPaper Pages: 463 - 485
Characteristics of SSH Anomaly Based on TOPEX/POSEIDON Altimetry and in situ Measured Velocity and Transport of Oyashio on OICE Shin-Ichi ItoKazuyuki UeharaYugo Shimizu OriginalPaper Pages: 425 - 437
Balance of Volume Transports between Horizontal Circulation and Meridional Overturn in the North Pacific Subarctic Region Tsurane KuraganoMasafumi Kamachi OriginalPaper Pages: 439 - 451
Formation Process of North Pacific Intermediate Water Revealed by Profiling Floats Set to Drift on 26.7 σθ Isopycnal Surface Yugo ShimizuTakanori IwaoToshiya Nakano OriginalPaper Pages: 453 - 462
Hydrographic Structure and Transport of Intermediate Water in the Kuroshio Region off the Boso Peninsula, Japan Kosei KomatsuYutaka HiroeFrank Bahr OriginalPaper Pages: 487 - 503
Spatial Variability of Living Coccolithophore Distribution in the Western Subarctic Pacific and Western Bering Sea Hiroshi HattoriMakoto KoikeKazuya Nagasawa OriginalPaper Pages: 505 - 515
Errata: Intermediate Circulation in the Northwestern North Pacific Derived from Subsurface Floats Takanori IwaoMasahiro EndohToshiya Nakano Erratum Pages: 517 - 517
Absolute Volume Transports of the Oyashio Referred to Moored Current Meter Data Crossing the OICE Kazuyuki UeharaShin-Ichi ItoTomowo Watanabe OriginalPaper Pages: 397 - 409
Tidal Mixing in the Kuril Straits and Its Impact on Ventilation in the North Pacific Ocean Tomohiro NakamuraTakahiro ToyodaToshiyuki Awaji OriginalPaper Pages: 411 - 423
Air-Sea Interaction, Coastal Circulation and Primary Production in the Eastern Arabian Sea: A Review Alvarinho J. LuisHiroshi Kawamura ReviewPaper Pages: 205 - 218
Application of Atomic Force Microscopy to Observation of Marine Bacteria Tomohiko NishinoEiko IkemotoKazuhiro Kogure OriginalPaper Pages: 219 - 225
An Ecosystem Model Coupled with Nitrogen-Silicon-Carbon Cycles Applied to Station A7 in the Northwestern Pacific Yasuhiro YamanakaNaoki YoshieMichio J. Kishi OriginalPaper Pages: 227 - 241
Time-Dependent Spatial Wavenumber Spectra Derived from Merged Sea Surface Temperature Data Kohtaro HosodaHiroshi Kawamura OriginalPaper Pages: 243 - 251
Stability of Temperature and Conductivity Sensors of Argo Profiling Floats Eitarou OkaKentaro Ando OriginalPaper Pages: 253 - 258
Comparison of Chlorophyll a Concentrations Obtained with 90% Acetone and N,N-dimethylformamide Extraction in Coastal Seawater Kuninao TadaHitomi YamaguchiShigeru Montani OriginalPaper Pages: 259 - 261
Introduction to Special Section: Kuroshio Observation, State Estimation and Prediction Shiro ImawakiHiroshi IchikawaMasafumi Kamachi Editorial Introduction Pages: 265 - 268
Short-Range Prediction Experiments with Operational Data Assimilation System for the Kuroshio South of Japan Masafumi KamachiTsurane KuraganoFrancesco Uboldi OriginalPaper Pages: 269 - 282
Predictability of Interannual Variability in the Kuroshio Transport South of Japan Based on Wind Stress Data over the North Pacific Kiyoshi TanakaMotoyoshi IkedaYukio Masumoto OriginalPaper Pages: 283 - 291
Application of Sensitivity Analysis Using an Adjoint Model for Short-Range Forecasts of the Kuroshio Path South of Japan Yoichi IshikawaToshiyuki AwajiTakahiro Toyoda OriginalPaper Pages: 293 - 301
Operational Data Assimilation System for the Kuroshio South of Japan: Reanalysis and Validation Masafumi KamachiTsurane KuraganoFrancesco Uboldi OriginalPaper Pages: 303 - 312
Generation of Small Meanders of the Kuroshio South of Kyushu in a High-Resolution Ocean General Circulation Model Yukio Masumoto OriginalPaper Pages: 313 - 320
Seasonality of the Kuroshio Transport Revealed in a Kuroshio Assimilation System Atsuhiko IsobeMasafumi KamachiTsurane Kuragano OriginalPaper Pages: 321 - 328
Propagation of Rossby Waves over Ridges Excited by Interannual Wind Forcing in a Western North Pacific Model Kiyoshi TanakaMotoyoshi Ikeda OriginalPaper Pages: 329 - 340
Sensitivity of the Interannual Kuroshio Transport Variation South of Japan to Wind Dataset in OGCM Calculation Hiroshi YoshinariMotoyoshi IkedaYukio Masumoto OriginalPaper Pages: 341 - 350
Variability of Northeastward Current Southeast of Northern Ryukyu Islands Hiroshi IchikawaHirohiko NakamuraMasataka Higashi OriginalPaper Pages: 351 - 363
Monitoring Surface Velocity from Repeated ADCP Observations and Satellite Altimetry Kaoru IchikawaNoriaki GohdaArata Kaneko OriginalPaper Pages: 365 - 374
Estimating the Kuroshio Axis South of Japan Using Combination of Satellite Altimetry and Drifting Buoys Daisuke AmbeShiro ImawakiKaoru Ichikawa OriginalPaper Pages: 375 - 382
North Pacific Intermediate Water: Progress in SAGE (SubArctic Gyre Experiment) and Related Projects Ichiro Yasuda ReviewPaper Pages: 385 - 395