OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Oceanography is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Global trends of ocean CO2 sink and ocean acidification: an observation-based reconstruction of surface ocean inorganic carbon variables	64
Increasing trend in Japan Sea Throughflow transport	29
Significant wave height retrieval from Sentinel-1 SAR imagery by convolutional neural network	18
Distribution, biomass, and species composition of salps and doliolids in the Oyashio–Kuroshio transitional region: potential impact of massive bloom on the pelagic food web	17
Long-term change in the status of water pollution in Tokyo Bay: recent trend of increasing bottom-water dissolved oxygen concentrations	15
A review: iron and nutrient supply in the subarctic Pacific and its impact on phytoplankton production	14
Role of tide-induced vertical mixing in the deep Pacific Ocean circulation	10
Nutrient and dissolved inorganic carbon variability in the North Pacific	10
Internal hydraulic jump in the Tsugaru Strait	10
Spatial downscaling of MODIS Chlorophyll-a with machine learning techniques over the west coast of the Yellow Sea in South Korea	10
Phytoplankton growth and grazing mortality through the oligotrophic subtropical North Pacific	9
Simulating tropical cyclone waves in the East China Sea with an event-based, parametric-adjusted model	9
Effects of eddies on the subduction and movement of water masses reaching the $$137^{\circ }\,\hbox {E}$$ section using Lagrangian particles in an eddy-resolving OGCM	9
Subtropical Mode Water in a recent persisting Kuroshio large-meander period: part I—formation and advection over the entire distribution region	8
Space–time variations of sea ice in Bohai Sea in the winter of 2009–2010 simulated with a coupled ocean and ice model	8
Distribution and stoichiometry of Al, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd, and Pb in the East China Sea	8
Elevated turbulent and double-diffusive nutrient flux in the Kuroshio over the Izu Ridge and in the Kuroshio Extension	8
Annual versus semi-annual eddy kinetic energy variability in the Celebes Sea	8
Decadal-scale variability of the North Pacific subtropical mode water and its influence on the pycnocline observed along 137°E	8
Seasonal and interannual variations of MODIS Aqua chlorophyll-a (2003–2017) in the Upper Gulf of Thailand influenced by Asian monsoons	7
Seasonal velocity variations over the entire Kuroshio path part I: data analysis and numerical experiments	7
Observations of anticyclonic eddies in the western subarctic North Pacific	7
Diel vertical migration promotes zooplankton horizontal patchiness	7
Estimate of turbulent energy dissipation rate using free-fall and CTD-attached fast-response thermistors in weak ocean turbulence	7
Performance of JAXA’s SGLI standard ocean color products for oceanic to coastal waters: chlorophyll a concentration and light absorption coefficients of colored dissolved organic matter	7

Formation of Central Mode Water based on two zonal hydrographic sections in spring 2013 and 2016	6
Spatial and temporal scales of sea surface salinity in the tropical Indian Ocean from SMOS, Aquarius and SMAP	6
Vertical eddy diffusivity in the subsurface pycnocline across the Pacific	6
Eutrophication and hypoxia in the upper Gulf of Thailand	6
Vertical turbulent nitrate flux from direct measurements in the western subarctic and subtropical gyres of the North Pacific	6
Rapid freshening of Japan Sea Intermediate Water in the 2010s	6
Unusually high sea level at the south coast of Japan in September 2011 induced by the Kuroshio	6
Simulation of global distribution of rare earth elements in the ocean using an ocean general circulation model	6
Projected future changes in the contribution of Indo-Pacific sea surface height variability to the Indonesian throughflow	6
Temporal variation of particulate organic carbon flux at the mouth of Tokyo Bay	5
Continuous winter oceanic profiling in the Cape Darnley Polynya, East Antarctica	5
System vicarious calibration of GCOM-C/SGLI visible and near-infrared channels	5
Seasonal pathways of the Tsugaru Warm Current revealed by high-frequency ocean radars	5
Mesoscale-dependent near-inertial internal waves and microscale turbulence in the Tsushima Warm Current	5
Evaluation of retrieving chlorophyll a concentration and colored dissolved organic matter absorption from satellite ocean color remote sensing in the coastal waters of Hokkaido, Japan	5
Heat and salinity transport between the permanent pycnocline and the mixed layer due to the obduction process evaluated from a gridded Argo dataset	5
Urea is a potentially important nitrogen source for phytoplankton during red tide formation in Isahaya Bay, Japan	4
Projected climate change in the western North Pacific at the end of the 21st century from ensemble simulations with a high-resolution regional ocean model	4
Ocean mixing processes (OMIX): impact on biogeochemistry, climate and ecosystem	4
Ocean state estimations for synthesis of ocean-mixing observations	4
Further correcting pressure effects on SBE911 CTD-conductivity data from hadal depths	4
Spatiotemporal evolution of submesoscale filaments at the periphery of an anticyclonic mesoscale eddy north of the Kuroshio Extension	4
Sea level variability along the Japanese coast forced by the Kuroshio and its extension	4
Use of AERONET-OC for validation of SGLI/GCOM-C products in Ariake Sea, Japan	4
Hypoxia in the Upper Gulf of Thailand: Hydrographic observations and modeling	4
The formation of biogenic reef stone: from coral skeleton to reef rubble	4
Analysis and validation of ocean color and aerosol properties over coastal regions from SGLI based on a simultaneous method	4
Long-term trends of oxygen concentration in the waters in bank and shelves of the Southern Japan Sea	4
Phytoplankton and ice-algal communities in the seasonal ice zone during January (Southern Ocean, Indian sector)	4
Spatial distribution of the protist community in the southern part of the Okhotsk Sea off Hokkaido during summer	4
Seasonal velocity variations over the entire Kuroshio path part II: dynamical interpretation for the current speed variation	4
Comparison of the positive and negative Indian Ocean Dipole forcing on the Pacific interannual variability through the oceanic channel	4
Subtropical Mode Water in a recent persisting Kuroshio large-meander period: part II—formation and temporal evolution in the Kuroshio recirculation gyre off Shikoku	4