Kuroshio Current: Physical, Biogeochemical, and Ecosystem Dynamics (Hardcover)

Preface

(1)   Introduction of the Kuroshio Ecosystem Dynamics, by Prof. Hiroaki Saito (AORI U. of Tokyo [agreed])

(2)   Discovery of The Gulf Stream Nutrient Stream by Dr. J. L. Pelegrí (ICM CSIC [suggested])

(3)   The nutrient pathways in the North Atlantic by R.G. Williams (U. of Liverpool [suggested])

(4)   The internal wave induced mixing and possible nutrient injection below the Gulf Stream, by D. Whitt (Cambridge Univ. [suggested])

I)     Physical Aspects of the Kuroshio Nutrient Stream

(5)   Discovery of the Kuroshio Nutrient Stream, by Prof. X. Guo (Ehime Univ. [suggested])

(6)   Structure, transport and impacts of the Kuroshio Nutrient Stream, by Prof. Kosei Komatsu (AORI U. of Tokyo [agreed])

(7)   Multiscale routes to supply nutrients to oligotrophic surface Kuroshio water, by Takeyoshi Nagai (TUMSAT [agreed])

(8)   Nutrient supply through submesoscale processes in the regions between the Kuroshio and continental margins, by Dr. Hiroshi Kuroda (FRA [suggested]).

(9)   Measurements of diapycnal nitrate flux in the Kuroshio Front, by Dr. Hiroshi Kaneko et al. (FRA [suggested])

(10) Diapycnal nitrate flux in the Kuroshio over rough topography, by Dr. Daisuke Hasegawa. (FRA [suggested])

(11)   The 18.6-year period moon-tidal cycle in Pacific Decadal Oscillation: the Kuroshio region, by Prof. Yasuda (AORI [suggested])

(12)  TBA

II)     Biogeochemical Aspects of the Kuroshio Nutrient Stream and lower trophic pathways

(13)  Kuroshio and its ecosystem services, by Prof. Hiroaki Saito (AORI U. of Tokyo [agreed])

(14)  Phytoplankton community structure in the Kuroshio regions, by Prof. Koji Suzuki (Hokkaido Univ. [agreed])

(15) Satellite remote sensing of phytoplankton community structures in the Kuroshio region, by Prof. Taka Hirata (Hokkaido Univ. [agreed])

(16) Nutrient dynamics and stable isotropic analyses of the Kuroshio regions, by Prof. Yu Umezawa (Nagasaki Univ. [agreed])

(17) Stable isotropic analyses for zooplankton in the upstream Kuroshio, by Prof. Toru Kobari (Kagoshima Univ. [agreed])

(18) Physico-chemical characteristics of Particulate matters in the Kuroshio regions, by Prof. Hideki Fukuda (AORI U. of Tokyo [agreed])

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III)     Biological Aspects of the Kuroshio

(20)  The Kuroshio Fisheries Oceanography, by Dr. Motomitsu Takahashi (FRA [agreed])

(21)  Review of the Micronekton of the Kuroshio regions, By Dr. Chiyuki Sassa (FRA [agreed])

(22)  Trophic pathways from zooplankton to fish in the Kuroshio Ecosystem, by Dr. Yuji Okazaki (FRA [agreed])

(23) Modeling the zooplankton community structures across the Kuroshio, by Dr. Hiroomi Miyamoto (FRA [suggested])

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