| Special Section: Original Article K2S1 project | Mino, Yoshihisa, Chiho Sukigara, Makio C. Honda, Hajime Kawakami, Kazuhiko Matsumoto, Masahide Wakita, Minoru Kitamura, Tetsuichi Fujiki, Kosei Sasaoka, Osamu Abe, Jan Kaiser, Toshiro Saino | Seasonal variations in the nitrogen isotopic composition of settling particles at station K2 in the western subarctic North Pacific | 819-836 | 10.1007/s10872-016-0381-1 |
| Special Section: Original Article "Hot Spots" in the Climate System: New Developments in the Extratropical Ocean–Atmosphere Interaction Research | Nagano, Akira, Toshio Suga, Yoshimi Kawai, Masahide Wakita, Kazuyuki Uehara, Kyoko Taniguchi | Ventilation revealed by the observation of dissolved oxygen concentration south of the Kuroshio Extension during 2012–2013 | 837-850 | 10.1007/s10872-016-0386-9 (Open Access) |
| Original Article | Yasui, Saori, Jota Kanda, Toshihiro Usui, Hiroshi Ogawa | Seasonal variations of dissolved organic matter and nutrients in sediment pore water in the inner part of Tokyo Bay | 851-866 | 10.1007/s10872-016-0382-0 |
| Original Article | Tsukasaki, Ayumi, Nobuo Tsurushima, Tetsuya Nakazato, Yu Huang, Terumi Tanimoto, Masahiro Suzumura, Wataru Nishijima | Nutrient dynamics in core sediments of an artificial basal medium prepared with steelmaking slag and dredged materials | 867-881 | 10.1007/s10872-016-0384-y |
| Original Article | Kang, Lee-Kuo, Hsing-Ming Lu, Pei-Ting Sung, Ya-Fan Chan, Yun-Chi Lin, Gwo-Ching Gong, Kuo-Ping Chiang | The summer distribution of coccolithophores and its relationship to water masses in the East China Sea | 883-893 | 10.1007/s10872-016-0385-x |
| Original Article | Shimanaga, Motohiro, Kensuke Yanagi | The Ryukyu Trench may function as a “depocenter” for anthropogenic marine litter | 895-903 | 10.1007/s10872-016-0388-7 |
| Original Article | Liu, Zhao-Jun, Shoshiro Minobe, Yoshi N. Sasaki, Mio Terada | Dynamical downscaling of future sea level change in the western North Pacific using ROMS | 905-922 | 10.1007/s10872-016-0390-0 |
