Observation Team

Recent

Publications

Nishino, S., K. Shimada, M. Itoh, M. Yamamoto-Kawai, and S. Chiba (2008), East-west differences in water mass, nutrient, and chlorophyll a distributions in the sea-ice reduction region of the western Arctic Ocean, J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 113, C00A01, doi:10.1029/2007JC004666.

Nishino, S., K. Shimada, M. Itoh and S. Chiba (2009), Vertical double silicate maxima in the sea-ice reduction region of the western Arctic Ocean: Implications for an enhanced biological pump due to sea-ice reduction, J. Oceanogr., Vol. 65, 871-883, DOI 10.1007/s10872-009-0072-2.

Yamamoto-Kawai, M., F. McLaughlin, E. Carmack, S. Nishino, and K. Shimada (2009), Aragonite undersaturation in the Arctic Ocean: Effects of ocean acidification and sea ice melt, Science, Vol. 326, 1098-1100.

Nishino, S., T. Kikuchi, M. Yamamoto-Kawai, Y. Kawaguchi, T. Hirawake, and M. Itoh (2011a), Enhancement/reduction of biological pump depends on ocean circulation in the sea-ice reduction regions of the Arctic Ocean, J. Oceanogr., Vol. 67, 305-314, DOI: 10.1007/s10872-011-0030-7.

Nishino, S., M. Itoh, Y. Kawaguchi, T. Kikuchi, and M. Aoyama (2011b), Impact of an unusually large warm-core eddy on distributions of nutrients and phytoplankton in the southwestern Canada Basin during late summer/early fall 2010, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L16602, doi:10.1029/2011GL047885.