Half-Century of Scientific Advancements Since the Cooperative Study of the Kuroshio and Adjacent Regions (CSK) Programme - Need for a new Kuroshio Research

Ando, Kenji; Lin, Xiaopei; Villanoy, Cesar L.; Danchenkov, Mikhail; Lee, Jae-Hak; He, Huijun; Liu, Qian; Yang, Liu; Лобанов, В. Б.; Ma, Xiaolin; Mulyadi, Hanung Agus; Nagano, Akira; Ren, Jianjun; Syahailatua, Augy; Tian, Yongjun; Wu, Lunyu; Zhang, Jing; Zhang, Linlin; Zhao, Meixun; Zheng, Jingjing; Ma, Shouxiang; Zhu, Wenxi

doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2021.102513

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“…Much like the large numbers of surface drifting buoys released in the 1988 TOGA/Equatorial Pacific Ocean Circulation Experiment enhanced the GDP, the deployment of about 1000 floats during WOCE to measure deep ocean currents gave rise to the Argo Program 15 in the 1990s. Nearly 4000 Argo and other floats (Figure 5) are now an integral part of the basic suite of instruments used to describe and understand LMEs (Ando et al, 2021).…”

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Modern technologies and integrated observing systems are “instrumental” to fisheries oceanography: A brief history of ocean data collection

Schwing

2022

Fisheries Oceanography

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Interdisciplinary data fuel fisheries oceanography research and the ecosystem‐based approaches to management and sustainable development it informs. Underlying this is a distributed ocean observing framework that is integrated, interoperable, interactive, and accessible. In recognition of the 30th anniversary of Fisheries Oceanography the journal, this paper reviews the evolution of observing instruments and platforms used in contemporary fisheries oceanography the science. Illustrated with personal anecdotes, past efforts to create or adopt observing technologies, and examples of their use in research, this highlights the spectrum of instruments, systems, and programs used to survey and monitor ocean ecosystems. Modern ocean observing systems are complex and varied, reflecting the range and diversity of data required by fisheries oceanographers. These systems require a large and ongoing investment and an interdisciplinary community of scientists, engineers, and technicians to design, build, install, operate, and maintain them. Common themes emerge from a review of past successful instrument R&D and deployments. It is a highly collaborative, integrative, and iterative process. Most systems are the result of vision, planning, and perseverance, backed by careful calibration and intercomparison. Long‐term support is essential; public–private partnerships that leverage funding, technology, and infrastructure are critical. Sustaining long time series for monitoring population and ecosystem change and to support fisheries oceanography research is a priority. Future areas of focus include continuously innovating and updating technologies, implementing a backbone of core observations, and maintaining a nimble infrastructure and R&D capacity to seize new opportunities and address emerging challenges.

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Modern technologies and integrated observing systems are “instrumental” to fisheries oceanography: A brief history of ocean data collection

Schwing

2022

Fisheries Oceanography

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“…The North Pacific WBC includes the Kuroshio Current (KC) and Mindanao Current (MC) at the upper layer, and the Luzon Undercurrent and Mindanao Undercurrent (MUC) below the thermocline. Upon approaching the western boundary, the broad westward‐flowing North Equatorial Current bifurcates into poleward KC and equatorward MC (e.g., Ando et al., 2021; Qu & Lukas, 2003). Along the Philippine coast, the MC flows southward steadily with a maximum speed exceeding 100 cm s −1 near the surface (e.g., Lukas et al., 1991; Ren et al., 2018).…”

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Effect of the Intensified Sub‐Thermocline Eddy on Strengthening the Mindanao Undercurrent in 2019

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The Pacific western boundary currents (WBC) are of great scientific interest due to their key role in the global water mass transport and the heat budget of the western Pacific warm pool, which is essential to the evolution of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the anomalous climate events (e.g., Fine et al., 1994;Hu et al., 2015;Jin, 1997). The North Pacific WBC includes the Kuroshio Current (KC) and Mindanao Current (MC) at the upper layer, and the Luzon Undercurrent and Mindanao Undercurrent (MUC) below the thermocline. Upon approaching the western boundary, the broad westward-flowing North Equatorial Current bifurcates into poleward KC and equatorward MC (e.g., Ando et al., 2021;Qu & Lukas, 2003). Along the Philippine coast, the MC flows southward steadily with a maximum speed exceeding 100 cm s −1 near the surface (e.g., Lukas et al., 1991;Ren et al., 2018). At the southern tip of Mindanao Island, part of the MC turns westward entering the Sulawesi Sea to feed the Indonesian Throughflow, while the remainder flows southward and then turns

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“…The Ocean Observatories Initiative's Pioneer Array will be relocated to this area in 2024 and provides an excellent opportunity to investigate these questions in more depth (Text S6 in Supporting Information S1). Forward looking multi-scale multi-disciplinary programs may help address similar questions in the Kuroshio (Ando et al, 2021).…”

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Evidence for Kilometer‐Scale Biophysical Features at the Gulf Stream Front

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Cassar

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JGR Oceans

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Understanding the interplay of ocean physics and biology at the submesoscale and below (<30 km) is an ongoing challenge in oceanography. While poorly constrained, these scales may be of critical importance for understanding how changing ocean dynamics will impact marine ecosystems. Fronts in the ocean, regions where two disparate water masses meet and isopycnals become tilted toward vertical, are considered hotspots for biophysical interaction, but there is limited observational evidence at the appropriate scales to assess their importance. Fronts around western boundary currents like the Gulf Stream are of particular interest as these dynamic physical regions are thought to influence both productivity and composition of primary producers; however, how exactly this plays out is not well known. Using satellite data and 2 years of in situ observations across the Gulf Stream front near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, we investigate how submesoscale frontal dynamics could affect biological communities and generate hotspots of productivity and export. We assess the seasonality and phenology of the region, generalize the kilometer‐scale structure of the front, and analyze 69 transects to assess two physical processes of potential biogeochemical importance: cold shelf filament subduction and high salinity Sargasso Sea obduction. We link these processes observationally to meanders in the Gulf Stream and discuss how cold filament subduction could be exporting carbon and how obduction of high salinity water from depth is connected with high chlorophyll‐a. Finally, we report on phytoplankton community composition in each of these features and integrate these observations into our understanding of frontal submesoscale dynamics.

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Half-Century of Scientific Advancements Since the Cooperative Study of the Kuroshio and Adjacent Regions (CSK) Programme - Need for a new Kuroshio Research

Cited by 15 publications

References 339 publications

Modern technologies and integrated observing systems are “instrumental” to fisheries oceanography: A brief history of ocean data collection

Modern technologies and integrated observing systems are “instrumental” to fisheries oceanography: A brief history of ocean data collection

Effect of the Intensified Sub‐Thermocline Eddy on Strengthening the Mindanao Undercurrent in 2019

Evidence for Kilometer‐Scale Biophysical Features at the Gulf Stream Front

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