Publications

Rainville, L., S. R. Jayne, and M. F. Cronin, 2014.  Variations of the North Pacific subtropical mode water from direct observations.  Journal of Climate, Vol. 27, pp. 2842-2860.

Taguchi, B., H. Nakamura, M. Nonaka, and S. P. Xie, 2010.  Influences of the Kuroshio/Oyashio Extensions on air-sea heat exchanges and storm track activity as revealed in regional atmospheric model simulations for the 2003/4 cold season.  Journal of Climate, Vol. 22, pp. 6536-6560.

Taguchi, B., B. Qiu, M. Nonak, H. Sasaki, N. Schneider,and S. P. Xie, 2010.  Decadal variability of the Kuroshio Extension: Mesoscale eddies and recirculations.  Ocean Dynamics, Vol. 60, pp. 673-691.

Kelly, K. A., R. J. Small, R. M. Samelson, B. Qiu, T. Joyce, Y. O. Kwon, and M. F. Cronin, 2009. Western boundary currents and frontal air-sea interaction: Gulf Stream and Kuroshio Extension.  Journal of Climate, Vol. 23, pp. 5644-5667.

Jayne, S., N. Hogg, S.Waterman, L. Rainville, K. Donohue, D.Watts, K. Tracey, J. McClean, M. Maltrud, B. Qiu, S. Chen, and P. Hacker, 2009.  The Kuroshio Extension and its recirculation gyres.  Deep-Sea Research I, Vol. 56, pp. 2088-2099.

Howe, P. J., K. A. Donohue, and D. R. Watts, 2009.  Stream-coordinate structure and variability of the Kuroshio Extension. Deep Sea Research I, Vol. 56, pp. 1093-1116.

Tokinaga, H., Y. Tanimoto, S. P. Xie, T. Sampe, H. Tomita, and H. Ichikawa, 2009. Ocean frontal effects on the vertical development of clouds over the western North Pacific: In situ and satellite observations.  Journal of Climate, Vol. 22, pp, 4241-4260.

Tanimoto, Y., S. P. Xie, K. Kai, H. Okajima, H. Tokinaga, T. Murayama, M. Nonaka, H. Nakamura, 2009.  Observations of marine atmospheric boundary layer transitions across the summer Kuroshio Extension.  Journal of Climate, Vol. 22, pp. 1360-1374.

Cronin, M. F., N. Bond, J. Booth, H. Ichikawa, T. M. Joyce, K. Kelly, M. Kubota, B. Qiu, C. Reason, C. Sabine, T. Saino, T. Suga, L. D. Talley, L. Thompson, and R. A. Weller, 2009.  Monitoring ocean-atmosphere interactions in western boundary current extensions. In Proceedings of OceanObs09: Sustained Ocean Observations and Information for Society, Hall, J., Harrison, D. E. & Stammer, D., Eds, ESA Publication WPP-306, Vol. 2.

Donohue, K. A., D. R. Watts, K. Tracey, A. D. Greene, and M. Kennelly, 2009.  Mapping circulation in the Kuroshio Extension with an array of Current and Pressure recording Inverted Echo Sounders.  Journal of Atmospheric Oceanic Technologies, Vol. 27, pp. 507-527.

Rainville, L., S. Jayne, N. Hogg, and S. Waterman, 2009.  KESS Data Report – WHOI subsurface moorings.

Tomita, H., M. Kubota, M. F. Cronin, S. Iwasaki, M. Konda, and H. Ichikawa, 2009.  An assessment of surface heat fluxes from J-OFURO2 at the KEO/JKEO sites.  Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 115, C03018.

Qiu, B., S. Chen, P. Hacker, N. Hogg, S. Jayne, and H. Sasaki, 2008.  The Kuroshio Extension northern recirculation gyre: Profiling float measurements and forcing mechanism.  Journal of Physical Oceanography, Vol. 38, pp. 1764-1779.

Cronin, M. F., C. Meinig, C. L. Sabine, H. Ichikawa, and H. Tomita, 2008.  Surface Mooring Network in the Kuroshio Extension.  IEEE Systems Special Issue on GEOSS, Vol. 2, pp. 424-430.

Kubota, M., N. Iwabe, M. Cronin, and H. Tomita, 2008.  Surface heat fluxes from the NCEP/NCAR and NCEP/DOE reanalyses at the Kuroshio Extension Observatory buoy site.  Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 113, C02009.

Donohue, K., D. R. Watts, K. Tracey, M. Wimbush, and J. Park, 2008.  Program Studies the Kuroshio Extension. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, Vol. 89, pp. 161-162.

Kennelly, M., K. Donohue, A. Greene, K. L. Tracey, and D. R. Watts, 2008.  Inverted echo sounder data report: Kuroshio Extension System Study (KESS), April 2004 to July 2006. GSO Technical Report 2008-02, University of Rhode Island.

Park, J. H., D. Watts, K. Donohue, D. Watts, and S. Jayne, 2008.  A comparison of in situ bottom pressure array measurements with GRACE estimates in the Kuroshio Extension. Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 35, L17601.

Bond, N. and M. Cronin, 2007.  Regional Weather Patterns during Anomalous Air–Sea Fluxes at the Kuroshio Extension Observatory (KEO)*. Journal of Climate, Vol. 21, pp. 1680-1697.

Chen, S., B. Qiu and P. Hacker, 2007.  Profiling float measurements of the recirculation gyre south of the Kuroshio Extension in May-November, 2004.  Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 112, C05023.

Rainville, L., S. R. Jayne, J. L. McClean, and M. E. Malrud, 2007.  Formation of subtropical mode water in a high-resolution ocean simulation of the Kuroshio Extension region.  Ocean Modelling, Vol. 17, pp. 328-356.

Qiu, B., S. Chen, and P. Hacker, 2007.  Effect of mesoscale eddies on Subtropical Mode Water variability from the Kuroshio Extension System Study (KESS).  Journal of Physical Oceanography, Vol. 37, pp. 982-1000.

Taguchi, B., S. P. Xie, N. Schneider, M. Nonaka, H. Sasaki, and Y. Sasai, 2007.  Decadal variability of the Kuroshio Extension: Observations and an eddy-resolving model hindcast. Journal of Climate, Vol. 20, pp. 2357-2377.

Qiu, B., P. Hacker, S. Chen, K. A. Donohue, D. R. Watts, H. Mitsudera, N. G. Hogg and S. R. Jayne, 2006.  Observations of the Subtropical Mode Water evolution from the Kuroshio Extension System Study.  Journal of Physical Oceanography, Vol. 36, pp. 457-473.

Qiu, B., and S. Chen, 2006.  Decadal variability in the formation of the North Pacific Subtropical Mode Water: Oceanic versus atmospheric control. Journal of Physical Oceanography, Vol. 36, pp. 1365-1380.

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. Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 33, L04703.

Qiu, B., and S. Chen, 2005.  Variability of the Kuroshio Extension jet, recirculation gyre and mesoscale eddies on decadal timescales. Journal of Physical Oceanography, Vol. 35, pp. 2090-2103.

Taguchi, B., S. P. Xie, H. Mitsudera, and A. Kubokawa, 2005.  Response of the Kuroshio Extension to Rossby waves associated with the 1970s climate regime shift in a high-resolution ocean model.  Journal of Climate, Vol. 18, pp. 2979-2995.

Qiu, B., S. Chen, and P. Hacker, 2004.  Synoptic-scale air-sea flux forcing in the western North Pacific: Observations and their impact on SST and the mixed layer.  Journal of Physical Oceanography, Vol. 34, pp. 2148-2159.