1. Diversity analysis of protistan microplankton in Sagami Bay by 18S rRNA gene clone analysis using newly designed PCR primers

   • Sau Pin Kok
   • Tomohiko Kikuchi
   • Norio Kurosawa

   Original Article 30 June 2012 Pages: 599 - 613

   

2. High frequency variability of current in the western channel of the Tsushima/Korea Straits

   • Boonsoon Kang
   • Jong-Hwan Yoon
   • Takuya Nakakohara

   Original Article 17 July 2012 Pages: 615 - 624

   

3. Kuroshio pathways in a climatologically forced model

   • Elizabeth M. Douglass
   • Steven R. Jayne
   • Mathew Maltrud

   Original Article 25 July 2012 Pages: 625 - 639

   

4. Metabolism and chemical composition of zooplankton from 500 to 5,000 m depth of the western subarctic Pacific Ocean

   • Tsutomu Ikeda

   Original Article 18 July 2012 Pages: 641 - 649

   

5. Geochemical investigation of selected elements in coastal and riverine sediments from Ube, Kasado, and Suo-Oshima Bays in the western Seto Inland Sea, Southwest Japan

   • M. Azadur Rahman
   • Hiroaki Ishiga

   Original Article 26 July 2012 Pages: 651 - 669

   

6. Local phase relationship between sea surface temperature and net heat flux over weekly to annual periods in the extratropical North Pacific

   • Kohtaro Hosoda

   Original Article 28 July 2012 Pages: 671 - 685

   

7. Isolation of sea surface salinity maps on various timescales in the tropical Pacific Ocean

   • Jian Chen
   • Ren Zhang
   • Weitao Zhang

   Original Article 26 July 2012 Pages: 687 - 701

   

8. Western Arctic primary productivity regulated by shelf-break warm eddies

   • Eiji Watanabe
   • Michio J. Kishi
   • Maki Noguchi Aita

   Original Article 03 August 2012 Pages: 703 - 718

   

9. Retrieval of total suspended matter from MODIS 250 m imagery in the Bohai Sea of China

   • Lin Wang
   • Dongzhi Zhao
   • Yanlong Chen

   Original Article 19 July 2012 Pages: 719 - 725

   

10. Lagrangian ensemble model of Copepoda (Neocalanus cristatus) in the northwestern subarctic Pacific

    • Takeshi Terui
    • Michio J. Kishi
    • Hiromichi Ueno

    Original Article 25 July 2012 Pages: 727 - 741

    

11. Tracing offshore low-salinity plumes in the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico during the summer season by use of multispectral remote-sensing data

    • Young Baek Son
    • Wilford D. Gardner
    • Sang H. Lee

    Original Article 22 July 2012 Pages: 743 - 760

    

12. A new method to estimate phase speed and vertical velocity of internal solitary waves in the South China Sea

    • Wei Zhao
    • Xiaodong Huang
    • Jiwei Tian

    Original Article 10 August 2012 Pages: 761 - 769

    

13. Formation mechanism of the Weddell Sea Polynya and the impact on the global abyssal ocean

    • Mikitoshi Hirabara
    • Hiroyuki Tsujino
    • Goro Yamanaka

    Original Article 23 August 2012 Pages: 771 - 796

    

14. Numerical simulation of tidally induced eddies in the Bungo Channel: A possible role for sporadic Kuroshio-water intrusion (kyucho)

    • Taira Nagai
    • Toshiyuki Hibiya

    Original Article 29 August 2012 Pages: 797 - 806

    

15. Contribution of abiogenic and biogenic particles to trace-metal composition of phytoplankton assemblages in seawater of Shimizu Port, Japan

    • Masahiro Sakata
    • Masaki Yamada
    • Yasuhiro Senga

    Short Contribution 22 August 2012 Pages: 807 - 813