Refereed articles

1) Taniguchi, H. and M. Ishiwatari, 2006: Physical interpretation of unstable modes of a linear shear flow in shallow water on an equatorial beta-plane. J. Fluid Mech., 567, 1-26, doi:10.1017/ S00221120062400

2) Fukamachi, Y., G. Mizuta, K. I. Oshima, T. Toyota, N. Kimura, and M. Wakatsuchi, 2006 : Sea Ice thickness in the southwestern Sea of Okhotsk revealed by a moored ice-profiling sonar. J. Geophys. Res., 111, C09018, doi:10.1029/2005JC003327.

3) Watanabe, M., F.-F. Jin, and L.-L. Pan, 2006: Accelerated iterative method for solving steady problems of linearized atmospheric models. J. Atmos. Sci., 63, 3366-3382.

4) Fujiyoshi, Y., K. Yamashita, C. Fujiwara, 2006: Visualization of streaks, thermals and waves in the atmospheric boundary layer. J. Visualization, 9(4), 359.

5) Tokinaga, H., Y. Tanimoto, M. Nonaka, B. Taguchi, T. Fukamachi, S.-P. Xie, H. Nakamura,T. Watanabe, and I. Yasuda, 2006: Atmospheric sounding over the winter Kuroshio Extension: Effect of surface stability on atmospheric boundary layer structure, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L04703, doi:10.1029/2005GL025102.

6) Chikamoto Y. and Y. Tanimoto, 2006: Air-sea humidity effects on the generation of tropical Atlantic SST anomalies during the ENSO events. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L19702, doi:10.1029/2006GL027238.

7) Nishikawa, S. and A. Kubokawa, 2006: Mixed layer depth front and subduction of low potential vorticity water in an idealized ocean GCM. J. Oceanogr., accepted.

8) Hasebe, F., and Y. Yoshikura, 2006: Long-term Ozone Trend Depicted by Ozonesonde Observations over Japan, SOLA, 2, 84-87, doi:10.2151/sola.2006-022.

9) Misumi, K. and Y. Yamanaka, 2006: Ocean anoxic events in the mid-Cretaceous simulated by a 3-D biogeochemical general circulation model. Cretaceous Res., accepted.

10) Hashioka, T. and Y. Yamanaka, 2006: Ecosystem change in the western North Pacific associated with global warming obtained by 3-D NEMURO. Ecol. Modeling., in press.

11) Hashioka, T. and Y. Yamanaka, 2006: Seasonal and regional variations of phytoplankton groups by top-down and bottom-up controls obtained by a 3-D ecosystem model. Ecol. Modeling., in press.

12) Valsala, K.V., and M. Ikeda, 2006: Pathways and effects of the Indonesian Throughflow water in the Indian Ocean using Particle trajectory and Tracers in an OGCM. J. Climate, in press.

13) Ono, J., K. I. Ohshima, G. Mizuta, Y. Fukamachi, and M. Wakatsuchi,2006: Amplification of diurnal tides over Kashevarov Bank in the Sea of Okhotsk and its impact on water mixing and sea ice. Deep-Sea Research I, 53(3), 409-424.

14) Yoshikawa, C., Y. Yamanaka and T. Nakatsuka, 2006: Nitrate-nitrogen isotopic patterns in surface waters of the western and central equatorial Pacific. J. Oceanography, 62, 511-525.

15) Yoshikawa, C., T. Nakatsuka and M. Wakatsuchi, 2006: Distribution of N* in the Sea of Okhotsk and its use as a biogeochemical tracer of Okhotsk Sea Intermediate Water formation process. J. Marine Systems, 63, 49-62.

16) Tamura, T., K. I. Ohshima, H. Enomoto, K. Tateyama, A. Muto,S. Ushio, and R. A. Massom, 2006: Estimation of thinsea-ice thickness from NOAA AVHRR data in a polynya off the Wilkes Land coast, East Antarctica. Annals of Glaciology, 44, in press.

17) Massom, R. A., A. Worby, V. Lytle, T. Markus, I. Allison,T. Scambos, H. Enomoto, K. Tateyama, T. Haran, J. C. Comiso,A. Pfaffling, T. Tamura, A. Muto, P. Kanagaratnam, B. Giles,N. Young, G. Hyland, and E. Key, 2006: ARISE (AntarcticRemote Ice Sensing Experiment) in the East 2003: Validation of satellite-derived sea-ice data products. Annals of Glaciology, 44, in press.

18) Kawashima, M., Y. Fujiyoshi, M. Ohi, T. Honda, T. Kozu, T. Shimomai, and H. Hashiguchi, 2006: Overview of Doppler radar observations of precipitating cloud systems in Sumatera Island during the first CPEA campaign. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 84, 33-56.

19) Ohshima, K. I., S. Nihashi, E. Hashiya, and T. Watanabe, 2006: Interannual variability of sea ice area in the Sea of Okhotsk: Importance of surface heat flux in fall. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 84, 907-919.

20) Toyota, T., S. Takatsuji, K. Tateyama, K. Naoki, and K. I. Ohshima, 2006: Properties of sea ice and overlying snow in the southern Sea of Okhotsk. J. Oceanography, in press

21) Ono, K., K. I. Ohshima, T. Kono, M. Itoh, K. Katsumata, Y. N. Volkov, and M. Wakatsuchi, 2006: Water mass exchange and diapycnal mixing at Bussol' Strait revealed from the water mass property. J. Oceanography, in press.