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Dr: Masahiro Endoh (JAMSTEC)
The International Symposium Triangle'98
Dr: Lorenz Magaard (Univ. Hawaii)
KEY NOTE ADDRESS
Decadal and Interdecadal Climate Events and Their Impact On the Ocean Circulation in the Indo-Pacific Sector
Prof. Toshio Yamagata (FRSGC/Univ. Tokyo)
TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEAN AND ENSO
Monitoring the North Pacific for Improved Ocean, Weather, and Climate Forecasts
M J. McPhaden
TOCS and TRITON Buoy Project
Yoshifumi Kuroda, Kentaro Ando, Yuji Kashino, Hiroshi Matsuura, Norifumi Ushijima (JAMSTEC) and Kei Muneyama
Sensetivity of ENSO Forecasts to Ocean Initial Counditions
J. O. S. Alves, D. L. T. Anderson, T. N. Stockdale, M. A. Balmaseda and J. Segschneider
Intense nonliner migrations of the Pacific warm pool
Doron Nof and Stephen Van Gorder
WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS
Low frequency processes in Western Boundary Currents
Nelson Hogg
Cross-frontal exchange associated with meanders
D. Randolph Watts
Simulation of the Kuroshio and Oyashio System: Preliminary Results
Humio Mitsudera, Yasushi Yoshikawa, Bunmei Taguchi and Hirohiko Nakamura
Observationally Estimated Transport of the Kuroshio South of Japan
Shiro Imawaki, Hiroshi Uchida and the ASUKA Group
Monitoring of the Kuroshio over the Izu Ridge
Yasushi Yoshikawa, Takeshi Taneda and Kimio Hanawa
Surface Currents in the North Western Pacific From WOCE/TOGA drifters
Nikolai A. Maximenko, Gleb G. Panteleev, Pearn P. Niiler and Toshio Yamagata
A Discussion on the Benefits of the Inclusion of a RAFOS Float Project in the Proposed TRIANGLE Project
Olaf Boebel
MARGINAL SEAS AND THEIR ROLE IN OCEAN CIRCULATION
Various Applications of Wavelet Analysis
Leland Jameson, Toru Miyama, Takuji Waseda and Alexander Kazmin
Decadal-scale Variability in the Closure of the Wind-driven Gyres in the Western Equatorial Pacific and Implications for Heat and Salt Transport Into the Indian Ocean
Roxana C. Wajsowicz
Ocean Variability in the Southernmost Philippine Sea
Yuji Kashino, Hidetoshi Watanabe, Bambang Herunadi, Michio Aoyama, Djoko Hartoyo and Akio Ishida
Origins of the Indonesian Throughflow controled by the Mindanao Current strength: Simple Model Study
Toru Miyama, Bo Qiu and Toshiyuki Awaji
Seasonal/Interannual Variations of the Indonesian Throughflow and the Eastern Indian Ocean
Yukioi Masumoto
Intraseasonal Variability in the Indo-Pacific Throughflow and the Regions Surrounding the Indonesian Seas
Bo Qiu, Ming Mao and Yuji Kashino
Boundary Mixing Processes by Internal Waves in the North Pacific
Toshiyuki Awaji, Iomohiro Nakamura, Takaki Hatayama, Kazunori Akitomo and Takatoshi Takizawa
Circulation in the South China Sea
Su Jilan, Xu Jianping Cai Shuqun and Wang Ou
Interdecadal Variation in the East/Japan Sea
Kuh Kim
OCEAN CIRCULATION AND VARIATIONS
Reconstrction of Sea Surface Wind Fields over the North Pacific Using Sea Level Pressures during the Period of 1899-1995
Kimio Hanawa and Tamaki Yasuda
Inter-decadal variations in Japanese sardine and the Kuroshio Extension
Ichiro Yasuda and Masayuki Noto
North Pacific mode waters: Their climatology and variability
Toshio Suga
Mean circulation and variability in the global high-resolution GCM
―the Equatorial Currents System in the Pacific Ocean―
Akio Ishida, Yuji Kashino, Humio Mitsudera and Taruaki Kadokura
Ocean Climate Change: Comparison of Acoustic Tomography, Satellite Altimetry, and Modeling
Bruce M. Howe and the ATOC Consortium
Interannual variations of the Western Subarctic Gyre in the North Pacific
Tomowo Watanabe
Ocean circulation pathways in the Bay of Bengal: Observations and model results
Peter Hacker
Decadal Variability in the Southern Midlatitudes of the Pacific and Indian Oceans
J. S. Godfrey
Decadal Climate Events in the Seas North of Australia
Gary Meyers
A Thermodynamic Ocean Modelling System with Application to the Pacific and Indian Ocean
Tommy G. Jensen
Assimilation of Upper Ocean Data into Numerical Models
M. Ikeda and Y. Sasai
AIR-SEA INTERACTION PROCESSES
Long-term studies of air/sea temperatures at Oki-no-Tori Sima
Iwao Nakano, Hidetoshi Fujimori and Junichi Kimura
Teleconnection associated with Variations in the Subarctic Circulation of North Pacific
Yoshihiko Sekine
Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Modes in the Pacific and Atlantic
Shang-Ping Xie, Hideyuki Noguchi, Taroh Matsumoto, Youichi Tanimoto and Shinji Matsumura
DECADAL/INTERDECADAL CLIMATE EVENTS
Indication of Decadal Variability in the Oceanic Frontal Zones: Preliminary Results
Alexander S. Kazmin
Bi-decadal and penta-decadal oscillations over the North Pacific
Shoshiro Minobe
Ocean-Atmospheric Variability over the Pan-Atlantic Basin
Youichi TANIMOTO and Shang-Ping XIE
Interpentadal Changes of Seasonal Cycle of SST in the North Pacific
Igor Zveryaev and Konstantin Selemenov
ENSO and Decadal Climate Variability: Evidence From Geochemical Analysis of Annually-Banded Corals in Papua New Guinea
Alexander W. Tudhope, Colin P. Chilcott and Graham B. Shimmield
SST Variability and its Mechanism in a Coupled Atmosphere/Mixed-Layer Ocean Model
Akio Kitoh, Tatsuo Motoi and Hiroshi Koide
Two Distinct Interdecadal Modes of the Variability in the Pacific as Simulated in the MRI Coupled GCM
Seiji Yukimoto, M Endoh, Y Kitamura, A Kitoh, T Motoi and A Noda
A Freshening of the Upper Pycnocline in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre
Roger Lukas
Spatial Structure and Time Evolution of Decadal/Interdecadal Climate Events Observed in the North Pacific
Hisashi Nakamura and T Yamagata
A mechanism for generating ENSO decadal variability
Richard Kleeman, Julian P. McCreay and Barry A. Klinger
POSTER SESSION
BEHAVIOR OF MIDLATITUDE DECADAL OSCILLATIONS IN A SIMPLE ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM
Masahiro Watanabe and Masahide Kimoto
Effect of interdecadal variations in wind intensity and density stratification on ocean ecosystem in the North Pacific
Takashige Sugimoto and Kazuaki Tadokoro
The Southwest Monsoon Current east of Sri Lanka
P. N. Vinayachandran, Yukiko Masumoto and Toshio Yamagata
Unusual Behavior of the Kuroshio/Kuroshio Extension from Winter 1996 to Summer 1997 Observed by Using ADEOS-OCTS with Some External Conditions
Yoshiaki Toba, Hiroshi Murakami, Junichi Kimura, Myongsum Kim, Yasushi Yoshikawa and Koji Shimada
Preliminary Results from a 1000-km Scale Three-Dimensional Tomography Experiment in the Kuroshio Extension Region
Gang Yuan, Iwao Nakano, Hidetoshi Fujimori, Toshiaki Nakamura, Takashi Kamoshida and Akiko Kaya
Equatorward spreading of a passive tracer with appliciation to North Pacific interdecadal temperature variations
Masami Nonaka, Shang-Ping Xie and Kensuke Takeuchi
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