Subpolar marginal seas fuel the North Pacific through the intermediate water at the termination of the global ocean circulation

J Nishioka, H Obata, H Ogawa, K Ono… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The mechanism by which nutrients in the deep ocean are uplifted to maintain nutrient-rich
surface waters in the subarctic Pacific has not been properly described. The iron (Fe) supply …

Comparison of carbon cycle between the western Pacific subarctic and subtropical time-series stations: highlights of the K2S1 project

MC Honda, M Wakita, K Matsumoto, T Fujiki… - Journal of …, 2017 - Springer
A comparative study of ecosystems and biogeochemistry at time-series stations in the
subarctic gyre (K2) and subtropical region (S1) of the western North Pacific Ocean (K2S1 …

Mixed‐layer carbon cycling at the Kuroshio Extension Observatory

AJ Fassbender, CL Sabine, MF Cronin… - Global …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Seven years of data from the NOAA Kuroshio Extension Observatory (KEO) surface mooring,
located in the North Pacific Ocean carbon sink region, were used to evaluate drivers of …

Nitrogen isotopes of sinking particles reveal the seasonal transition of the nitrogen source for phytoplankton

C Yoshikawa, NO Ogawa, Y Chikaraishi… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In the high‐productivity subarctic ocean, phytoplankton growth is assumed to rely mainly on
nitrate, based on snapshot observations conducted in spring or summer. However, the year …

Primary productivity at the time-series stations in the northwestern Pacific Ocean: is the subtropical station unproductive?

K Matsumoto, O Abe, T Fujiki, C Sukigara… - Journal of …, 2016 - Springer
A comparative study of primary productivity in the northwestern Pacific Ocean was
conducted at time-series stations K2 and S1 in the nutrient-rich subarctic gyre and …

[HTML][HTML] Hadal water biogeochemistry over the Izu–Ogasawara Trench observed with a full-depth CTD-CMS

S Kawagucci, A Makabe, T Kodama, Y Matsui… - Ocean …, 2018 - os.copernicus.org
Full-depth profiles of hydrographic and geochemical properties at the Izu–Ogasawara
Trench were observed for the first time using a CTD-CMS (conductivity–temperature–depth …

Slow acidification of the winter mixed layer in the subarctic western N orth P acific

M Wakita, A Nagano, T Fujiki… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We used carbon dioxide (CO2) system data collected during 1999–2015 to investigate
ocean acidification at time series sites in the western subarctic region of the North Pacific …

Effective vertical transport of particulate organic carbon in the western North Pacific subarctic region

MC Honda - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
To quantify the biological carbon pump in the Northwestern Pacific and project future
changes induced by multiple stressors, a comparative biogeochemistry study of subarctic …

CH4 emissions from runoff water of Alaskan mountain glaciers

K Konya, T Sueyoshi, G Iwahana, T Morishita… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Recent studies have observed high methane concentrations in runoff water and the ambient
air at various glacier sites, including the Greenland Ice Sheet, the glacier forefield in …

Biological and physical controls on the oxygen cycle in the Kuroshio Extension from an array of profiling floats

SM Bushinsky, SR Emerson - Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Kuroshio Extension (KE) is a current associated with the largest CO 2 flux into
the Pacific Ocean, a broad region of uptake that extends across the Pacific basin between …