Abstract: The authors present a linearized model of the heat transfer between the soil layer and the atmosphere. Using this model, the moisture availability at the surface can be estimated from the diurnal variations of the soil ...

Abstract: A multiship CTD survey was conducted in the Kuroshio-Oyash interfrontal zone in the area of 30°?41°N, 140°E?180° from May to June 1992 to examine the distribution, modification process, and formation site of North Pacific ...

Abstract: The distribution and circulation of the coastal Oyashio intrusion were examined with a CTD and shipboard ADCP survey conducted in the vicinity of the east coast of Japan in May 1994. The estimate of mixing ratios in the ...

Abstract: he hydrographic structure of a quasi-stationary jet separated from the Kuroshio Extension, a phenomenon that possibly leads to deepening of the winter mixed layer, is revealed via intensive observations using a ...

Abstract: The ADCP-referenced geostrophic circulation of the Oyashio and Kuroshio waters in the density range 26.6?27.2 σ? in the Kuroshio?Oyashio interfrontal zone is examined by synoptic observations with a CTD and shipboard ADCP ...

Abstract: Summer hydrographic surveys from 1993 to 1997 in the area south of the Kuril Islands in the northwestern subarctic Pacific showed the existence of anticyclonic eddies south of the Bussol? Strait at almost the same location ...