Bio-Optical Properties of Seawater in the Western Subarctic Gyre and Alaskan Gyre in the Subarctic North Pacific and the Southern Bering Sea during the Summer of 1997   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Hiroaki Sasaki  Sei-Ichi Saitoh  Motoaki Kishino 《Journal of Oceanography》2001,57(3):275-284

Chlorophyll a concentrations (chla) and the absorption coefficients of total particulate matter [a _p()], phytoplankton [a _ph()], detritus [a _d()], and colored dissolved organic matter: CDOM [a _CDOM()] were measured in seawater samples collected in the subarctic North Pacific and the southern Bering Sea during the summer of 1997. We examined the specific spectral properties of absorption for each material, and compared the light fields in the Western subarctic Gyre (area WSG) with those in the Alaskan Gyre (area AG), and the southern Bering Sea (area SB). In the area WSG, the irradiance in the surface layer decreased markedly, indicating high absorption. In the area AG, the radiant energy penetrated deeply, and the chl a and absorption values were low throughout the water column. In the area SB, light absorption was high in the surface layer on the shelf edge and decreased with increasing depth; on the other hand, light absorption was low in the surface layer in the shelf area and increased with increasing depth.  相似文献   

Re-Estimation of Annual Anthropogenic Carbon Input from Oyashio into North Pacific Intermediate Water     

Tsuneo Ono  Katsuyuki Sasaki  Ichiro Yasuda 《Journal of Oceanography》2003,59(6):883-891

The annual transport of anthropogenic carbon (C_anth) to the North Pacific Intermediate Water (NPIW) from the Western Subarctic Gyre (WSG) has been re-estimated by using newly estimated Oyashio transport and C_anth concentration, the latter calculated by the recently-established “ΔC*” method with some modifications. Estimated annual C_anth transport through the nearshore Oyashio west of 146°E was 0.020 ± 0.010 GtC y⁻¹, closely approximating the previous estimation based on a 1-D model calibrated with the CFC vertical distribution. The present study, however, found that an additional 0.025 ± 0.010 GtC y⁻¹ of C_anth was transported into NPIW in the region east of 146°E. Total C_anth transport, 0.045 GtC y⁻¹, contributes about 35% of annual C_anth accumulation of the whole temperate North Pacific. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.  相似文献   

Rotational instability of a horizontal shear flow in a stratified rotating fluid     

Ken Sasaki 《Journal of Oceanography》1971,27(4):137-141

The rotational instability of a thermally stratified, viscous, conducting, rotating fluid is investigated by means of linearized perturbation equations. It is assumed that the basic horizontal flow is vertically uniform and that the horizontal shear is confined in a thin layer. By solving a simplified boundary value problem as a model of rotational instability in the sea, we have shown that the vertical wave length of the neutral disturbance is of order 10 times as large as the laminar Ekman layer thickness, and that this scale is proportional to (L/N)^1/3, whereL is the width of the shear layer andN is the Brunt-Vaisala frequency.  相似文献   

Responses of diatoms to iron-enrichment (SEEDS) in the western subarctic Pacific, temporal and spatial comparisons     

Atsushi Tsuda  Hiroshi Kiyosawa  Akira Kuwata  Mamiko Mochizuki  Naonobu Shiga  Hiroaki Saito  Sanae Chiba  Keiri Imai  Jun Nishioka  Tsuneo Ono 《Progress in Oceanography》2005,64(2-4):189

Phytoplankton species composition was analyzed inside and outside of the iron-enriched patch during the SEEDS experiment. Before the iron-enrichment, the phytoplankton community consisted of similar proportions of pico-, nano- and micro-sized phytoplankton, and the micro-phytoplankton was dominated by the pennate diatom Pseudo-nitzschia turgidula. Although all the diatoms, except the nano-sized Fragilariopsis sp., increased during the two weeks of the observation period, the flora in the patch dramatically changed with the increase of phytoplankton biomass to a centric diatom-dominated community. Neritic diatoms, especially Chaetoceros debilis, showed higher growth rates than other diatoms, without any delay in the initiation of growth after the enrichment, and accounted for 90% of the micro-phytoplankton after day 9. In contrast, the oceanic diatoms showed distinct delays in the initiation of growth. We conclude that the responses of the diatoms to the manipulation of iron concentration were different by species, and the fast and intensive response of the phytoplankton to iron-enrichment resulted from the presence of a small amount of neritic diatoms at the study site. The important factors that determine the dominant species in the bloom are the potential growth rates under an iron-replete condition and the growth lag. Abundant species in the patch are widely distributed in the North Pacific and their relative contributions in the Oyashio area and at Stn KNOT are high from spring to summer. However, a characteristic difference of species composition between the SEEDS bloom and natural blooms was the lack of Thalassiosira and Coscinodiscus species in the patch, which usually account for a major part of the phytoplankton community under blooming conditions in the western North Pacific.  相似文献   

Three-year investigations into sperm whale-fall ecosystems in Japan   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Yoshihiro Fujiwara  Masaru Kawato  Tomoko Yamamoto  Toshiro Yamanaka  Waka Sato-Okoshi  Chikayo Noda  Shinji Tsuchida  Tomoyuki Komai  Sherine Sonia Cubelio  Takenori Sasaki  Karen Jacobsen  Kaoru Kubokawa  Katsunori Fujikura  Tadashi Maruyama  Yasuo Furushima  Kenji Okoshi  Hiroshi Miyake  Masayuki Miyazaki  Yuichi Nogi  Akiko Yatabe  & Takashi Okutani 《Marine Ecology》2007,28(1):219-232

We report the first study of sperm whale‐fall ecosystems, based on mass sinking of whale carcasses at shelf depths in the northwest Pacific. We conducted three observations over a 2‐year period on replicate sperm‐whale carcasses implanted at depths of 219–254 m off the southern part of Japan from July 2003 to August 2005. The study was made possible by a mass stranding of sperm whales in January 2002, and the subsequent sinking of 12 carcasses in the waters off Cape Nomamisaki. Dense aggregations of unique chemosynthesis‐based fauna had formed around the whale carcasses after 18 months (July 2003). The mytilid mussel Adipicola pacifica was the most abundant macrofaunal species and covered most of the exposed bone surfaces. The general composition of the fauna was similar to that of deep‐water reducing habitats, but none of the species appearing in this study has been found at hydrothermal vents, cold seeps or deep‐water whale falls. A new species of lancelet, which was the first record of the subphylum Cephalochordata from reducing environments, a new species of Osedax; a rarely encountered benthic ctenophore, and a rare gastropod species were discovered at this sperm whale‐fall site. Benthic communities were similar across all the carcasses studied, although the body sizes of the whales were very different. The succession of epifaunal communities was relatively rapid and the sulphophilic stage was considerably shorter than that of other known whale falls.  相似文献   

Effect of iron enrichment on the dynamics of transparent exopolymer particles in the western subarctic Pacific   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Neelam Ramaiah  Shigenobu Takeda  Ken Furuya  Takeshi Yoshimura  Jun Nishioka  Tatsuo Aono  Yukihiro Nojiri  Keiri Imai  Isao Kudo  Hiroaki Saito  Atsushi Tsuda 《Progress in Oceanography》2005,64(2-4):253

Dynamics of transparent exopolymer particles (TEP) was studied during the first in situ iron-enrichment experiment conducted in the western subarctic Pacific in July–August 2001, with the goal of evaluating the contribution of TEP to vertical flux as a result of increased primary production following iron enrichment in open ocean ecosystems. Subsequent to the enhancement of phytoplankton production, we observed increase in TEP concentration in the surface layer and sedimentation of organic matter beneath it. Vertical profiles of TEP, chlorophyll a (Chl a) and particulate organic carbon (POC) were obtained from six depths between 5 and 70 m, from a station each located inside and outside the enriched patch. TEP and total mass flux were estimated from the floating sediment traps deployed at 200 m depth. Chl a and TEP concentrations outside the patch varied from 0.2 to 1.9 μg L⁻¹ and 40–60 μg XG equiv. L⁻¹, respectively. Inside the patch, Chl a increased drastically from day 7 reaching the peak of 19.2 μg L⁻¹ on day 13, which coincided with the TEP peak of 189 μg XG equiv. L⁻¹. TEP flux in the sediment trap increased from 41 to 88 mg XG equiv. m⁻² d⁻¹, with 8–14% contribution of TEP to total mass flux. This forms the basic data set on ambient concentrations of TEP in the western subarctic Pacific, and evaluation of the effect of iron enrichment on TEP.  相似文献   

Validation of ADEOS-II GLI ocean color products using in-situ observations     

Hiroshi Murakami  Kosei Sasaoka  Kohtaro Hosoda  Hajime Fukushima  Mitsuhiro Toratani  Robert Frouin  B. Greg Mitchell  Mati Kahru  Pierre-Yves Deschamps  Dennis Clark  Stephanie Flora  Motoaki Kishino  Sei-Ichi Saitoh  Ichio Asanuma  Akihiko Tanaka  Hiroaki Sasaki  Katsumi Yokouchi  Yoko Kiyomoto  Hiroaki Saito  Cécile Dupouy  Absornsuda Siripong  Satsuki Matsumura  Joji Ishizaka 《Journal of Oceanography》2006,62(3):373-393

The Global Imager (GLI) aboard the Advanced Earth Observing Satellite-II (ADEOS-II) made global observations from 2 April 2003 to 24 October 2003. In cooperation with several institutes and scientists, we obtained quality controlled match-ups between GLI products and in-situ data, 116 for chlorophyll-a concentration (CHLA), 249 for normalized water-leaving radiance (nLw) at 443 nm, and 201 for aerosol optical thickness at 865 nm (Tau_865) and Angstrom exponent between 520 and 865 nm (Angstrom). We evaluated the GLI ocean color products and investigated the causes of errors using the match-ups. The median absolute percentage differences (MedPD) between GLI and in-situ data were 14.1–35.7% for nLws at 380–565 nm, 52.5–74.8% nLws at 625–680 nm, 47.6% for Tau_865, 46.2% for Angstrom, and 46.6% for CHLA, values that are comparable to the ocean-color products of other sensors. We found that some errors in GLI products are correlated with observational conditions; nLw values were underestimated when nLw at 680 nm was high, CHLA was underestimated in absorptive aerosol conditions, and Tau_865 was overestimated in sunglint regions. The error correlations indicate that we need to improve the retrievals of the optical properties of absorptive aerosols and seawater and sea surface reflection for further applications, including coastal monitoring and the combined use of products from multiple sensors.  相似文献   

Primary productivity in the offshore Oyashio in the spring and summer 1990     

Akihiro Shiomoto  Katsuyuki Sasaki  Toru Shimoda  Satsuki Matsumura 《Journal of Oceanography》1994,50(2):209-222

Primary productivity was measured byin situ method using¹³C in the offshore Oyashio region in the spring (May) and summer (September) of 1990. Most of the values were within the range of 0.1 to 4 gC 1^–1 h^–1 although a very large value, 7.96 gC l^–1 h^–1, was observed in summer. Most daily primary production fell within the range of 372 to 633 mgC m^–2 d^–1 although a very large value, 2,109 mgC m^–2 d^–1, was observed around the frontal area in summer. Chlorophylla (Chl.a) exceeded 1 g l^–1 in many cases, and the maximum was 4.61 g l^–1 in spring and 7.53 g l^–1 in summer. Most primary productivity per unit Chl.a (photosynthetic assimilation ratio) was within the range of 0.1 to 3 gC gChl.a ^–1 h^–1 although higher values, 3–6 gC gChl.a ^–1 h^–1, were observed where small-size phytoplanktons (<2 m) were dominant. These results were compared with results obtained until now in the Oyashio region. The values beyond the range obtained so far in the offshore region were also observed in this study. Furthermore, it was pointed out that the size composition of phytoplankton community has significant influence on the results of Chl.a and photosynthetic assimilation ratio in the Oyashio region.  相似文献   

Nitrogen circulation in the water column in the Oyashio region with reference to its high productivity     

Yasuo Matsukawa  Katsuyuki Sasaki 《Journal of Oceanography》1991,47(6):265-275

In order to determine quantitatively the reason for the high productivity in the Oyashio Region, which is the southwest part of the Pacific Subarctic Region, the annual-mean vertical circulation of nitrogen in the region was estimated from the vertical profiles of nitrate, dissolved oxygen and salinity, and sediment-trap data by adapting them to the balance equations. Estimates of the upwelling velocity (1.7×10⁻⁵cm sec⁻¹) and the vertical diffusivity (2.1 cm² sec⁻¹) in the abyssal zone and the primary and secondary productivities (44 and 4 mgN m⁻²day⁻¹, respectively) in the euphotic zone were close to those of previous works. The estimated vertical circulation of nitrogen strongly suggested that, since the divergence (5 mgN m⁻²day⁻¹) is caused by the abyssal convergence (6 mgN m⁻²day⁻¹) and the positive precipitation, the local new production (22 mgN m⁻²day⁻¹) necessarily exceeds not only the sinking flux (10 mgN m⁻²day⁻¹) itself but also the sum of the sinking flux and the downward diffusion of dissolved and particulate organic matter (7 mgN m⁻²day⁻¹) produced probably in the euphotic zone. The important roles of the abyssal circulation, the winter convection, and the metabolic activity in the bathyal zone to support the high productivity in the euphotic zone were clarified quantitatively.  相似文献   

New Data on Diamond–Graphite Relationships in the Gneisses of the Kokchetav Massif (Northern Kazakhstan)     

Mikhailenko  D. S.  Shchepetova  O. V.  Musiyachenko  K. A.  Korsakov  A. V.  Ohfuji  Hiroaki  Pekov  I. V. 《Doklady Earth Sciences》2018,480(2):814-817

The results of studying an aggregate of graphite-and-diamond crystal in tourmaline 5 μm of the Kokchetav massif by the method of transmission electron microscopy are presented. The detail studies of the interface between the crystals of graphite and diamond have revealed the absence of disordered graphite that is detail partially graphitized diamond. Intense deformation changes in the graphite crystal occurred after it was captured by tourmaline at the regression stage, which led to considerable kinking of the graphite crystal along the a-axis. Thus, the coexistence of graphite and diamond crystals cannot be unambiguously interpreted as a product of partial diamond graphitization. Graphite could have crystallized syngenetic with a diamond crystal or at the retrograde stage in the graphite stability field.

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