Reliability modelling of ocean current energy conversion systems through both analytical and Monte Carlo methods

A Ghaedi - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Nowadays, ocean and other renewable energies have capability to produce clean and
sustainable electric energy. Thus, various countries have developed renewable power …

Palaeolithic voyage for invisible islands beyond the horizon

Y Kaifu, TH Kuo, Y Kubota, S Jan - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
How Palaeolithic maritime transportation originated and developed is one of the key
questions to understand the world-wide dispersal of modern humans that began 70,000 …

New insights into Kuroshio Current evolution since the last deglaciation based on paired organic paleothermometers from the Middle Okinawa Trough

Q Li, G Li, MT Chen, J Xu, S Liu… - Paleoceanography and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
As an important hydrological parameter in the upper ocean, the depth of the thermocline
(DOT) in the Okinawa Trough (OT) is closely linked to air‐sea interactions and Kuroshio …

Changes in the Kuroshio path, surface velocity and transport during the last 35,000 years

H Yang, X Guo, Y Miyazawa… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We consider the sea level, air–sea heat flux, and wind stresses and use an ocean model to
investigate the evolution of the Kuroshio path and intensity during the last 35,000 years …

Palaeolithic seafaring in East Asia: testing the bamboo raft hypothesis

Y Kaifu, C Lin, A Goto, N Ikeya, M Yamada, WC Chiang… - Antiquity, 2019 - cambridge.org
The earliest colonisation of oceanic islands by Homo sapiens occurred~ 50 000–30 000
years ago in the Western Pacific, yet how this was achieved remains a matter of debate. With …

A synthetic model of Palaeolithic seafaring in the Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan

Y Kaifu - World Archaeology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The rise of water transport technology enabled early modern humans to expand their
habitable territory to insular environments. However, apart from intensive discussion for …

Replicability of paleotemperature records in the northern Okinawa Trough and its implications for paleoceanographic reconstructions

RY Tung, SL Ho, Y Kubota, M Yamamoto… - Progress in Earth and …, 2024 - Springer
Geochemical proxies are frequently utilized in the reconstruction of past ocean
temperatures. Due to resource constraints, these reconstructions typically rely on a single …

Sea level and low-latitude climate control on sedimentary provenance and paleoenvironmental evolution in the central Okinawa Trough since 19 cal. ka BP

F Xu, X Zhang, J Xu, Z Sun, S Yuan, X Liu - Palaeogeography …, 2025 - Elsevier
This study utilizes AMS 14 C dating, grain size analysis, and elemental composition to
ascertain the provenance of sediments in core C01, thereby offering insights into the …

Changes in surface water masses in the northern East China Sea since the Last Glacial Maximum based on diatom assemblages

K Shirota, Y Okazaki, S Konno, Y Miyairi… - Progress in Earth and …, 2021 - Springer
We investigated diatom assemblages for the last 19 ka in a piston core KY07-04 PC01
collected from the northern Okinawa Trough, East China Sea. Most of the diatom taxa in the …

High-resolution sea surface temperature and salinity dynamics in the northern Okinawa Trough over the last 24 kyr

Y Xu, FM Chang, TG Li, BH Li - Palaeoworld, 2021 - Elsevier
Based on the high-resolution Mg/Ca and oxygen isotope ratio (δ 18 O) of planktonic
foraminifera Globigerinoides ruber, sea surface temperature (SST) and salinity (SSS) were …