| Original Article | Tatsuro Karaki, Humio Mitsudera, Hiroshi Kuroda | Buoyancy shutdown process for the development of the baroclinic jet structure of the Soya Warm Current during summer | 339-350 | 10.1007/s10872-018-0465-1 (open access) |
| Original Article | Goh Onitsuka, Yutaka Yoshikawa, Tomoyuki Shikata, Kei Yufu, Kazuo Abe, Takahisa Tokunaga, Katsunori Kimoto, Takeshi Matsuno | Development of a thin diatom layer observed in a stratified embayment in Japan | 351-365 | 10.1007/s10872-018-0466-0 |
| Original Article | Ryohei Sasayama, Nanako Hioki, Yuichiroh Morita, Yutaka Isoda, Keiri Imai, Atsushi Ooki, Kenshi Kuma | Upward transport of iron at the west shelf edge–slope of the Okinawa Trough in the East China Sea | 367-379 | 10.1007/s10872-018-0468-y |
| Original Article | Lin Lu, Tao Jiang, Yong Xu, Yaoyang Zheng, Bijuan Chen, Zhengguo Cui, Keming Qu | Succession of phytoplankton functional groups from spring to early summer in the central Bohai Sea using HPLC–CHEMTAX approaches | 381-392 | 10.1007/s10872-018-0469-x |
| Original Article | Hideyuki Nakano, Hiroyuki Tsujino, Kei Sakamoto, Shogo Urakawa, Takahiro Toyoda, Goro Yamanaka | Identification of the fronts from the Kuroshio Extension to the Subarctic Current using absolute dynamic topographies in satellite altimetry products | 393-420 | 10.1007/s10872-018-0470-4 |
| Short Contribution | Tatsuo Suzuki, Dai Yamazaki, Hiroyuki Tsujino, Yoshiki Komuro, Hideyuki Nakano, Shogo Urakawa | A dataset of continental river discharge based on JRA-55 for use in a global ocean circulation model | 421-429 | 10.1007/s10872-017-0458-5(open access) |
| Short Contribution | Kazuhiro Aoki, Tomoya Kataoka | High-frequency ocean radar derived characteristics of sea surface currents in the Ariake Sea, Japan | 431-437 | 10.1007/s10872-018-0464-2 |
