1. Linking bacterial community structure to carbon fluxes in marine environments

   • Taichi Yokokawa
   • Toshi Nagata

   Review 23 January 2010 Pages: 1 - 12

2. Seasonal change of oceanographic conditions and chlorophyll a vertical distribution in the southwestern Okhotsk Sea during the non-iced season

   • Hiromi Kasai
   • Yoshiyuki Nakano
   • Atsushi Tsuda

   Original Articles 23 January 2010 Pages: 13 - 26

3. Sea level variations in the regional seas around Taiwan

   • Yu-Heng Tseng
   • Larry C. Breaker
   • Emmy T. -Y. Chang

   Original Articles 23 January 2010 Pages: 27 - 39

4. Effects of mass source/sink at the western boundary on the wind-driven gyres: Implications for the ventilation of the north pacific intermediate layer through convection in the Okhotsk Sea and tidal mixing at the Kuril Straits

   • Tomohiro Nakamura
   • Takahiro Toyoda
   • Toshiyuki Awaji

   Original Articles 23 January 2010 Pages: 41 - 60

5. Hourly sea surface temperature retrieval using the Japanese Geostationary Satellite, Multi-Functional Transport Satellite (MTSAT)

   • Hiroshi Kawamura
   • Huiling Qin
   • Riza Yuliratno Setiawan

   Original Articles 23 January 2010 Pages: 61 - 70

6. East-west distribution of POC fluxes estimated from ²³⁴Th in the northern North Pacific in autumn

   • Hajime Kawakami
   • Makio C. Honda
   • Shuichi Watanabe

   Original Articles 23 January 2010 Pages: 71 - 83

7. Variations of eddy kinetic energy in the South China Sea

   • Xuhua Cheng
   • Yiquan Qi

   Original Articles 23 January 2010 Pages: 85 - 94

8. Characteristics of observed turbulent mixing across the Antarctic Slope Front at 140°E, East Antarctica

   • Daisuke Hirano
   • Yujiro Kitade
   • Masaji Matsuyama

   Original Articles 23 January 2010 Pages: 95 - 104

9. Iron deficiency in micro-sized diatoms in the Oyashio region of the Western subarctic Pacific during spring

   • Ai Hattori-Saito
   • Jun Nishioka
   • Koji Suzuki

   Original Articles 23 January 2010 Pages: 105 - 115

10. Anthropogenic Pb in settling particulate matter in the Northwestern Pacific examined using stable isotopes of Pb

    • Daisuke Nagaoka
    • Masahito Shigemitsu
    • Shinichiro Noriki

    Original Articles 23 January 2010 Pages: 117 - 132

11. Paleoclimatic and diagenetic history of the late quaternary sediments in a core from the Southeastern Arabian Sea: Geochemical and magnetic signals

    • Venigalla Purnachandra Rao
    • Pratima Mohan Kessarkar
    • Shiva Kumar Patil

    Original Articles 23 January 2010 Pages: 133 - 146

12. Temporal variations of the winter mixed layer south of the Kuroshio Extension

    • Hikaru Iwamaru
    • Fumiaki Kobashi
    • Naoto Iwasaka

    Short Contribution 23 January 2010 Pages: 147 - 153

13. Seasonal and spatial variation in the denitrifying activity in estuarine and lagoonal sediments

    • Yukiko Senga
    • Minoru Okumura
    • Yasushi Seike

    Short Contribution 23 January 2010 Pages: 155 - 160