New Developments in Mode-Water Research

Progress of North Pacific Mode Water Research in the Past Decade.- Review on North Pacific Subtropical Countercurrents and Subtropical Fronts: Rold of Mode Waters in Ocean Circulation and Climate.- New Perspectives on Eighteen-Degree Water Formation in the North Atlantic.- Mixed Layer Depth Front and Subduction of Low Potential Vorticity Water under Seasonal Forcings in an Idealized OGCM.- The Role of Meso-Scale Eddies in Mixed Layer Deepening and Mode Water Formation in the Western North Pacific.- Roles of Mode Waters in the Formation and Maintenance of Central Water in the North Pacific.- Interannual Variations of the Hawaiian Lee Countercurrent Induced by Potential Vorticity Variablitiy in the Subsurface.- Interannual Variability of the North Pacific Subtropical Countercurrent: Role of Locan Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction.- Response of the North Pacific Subtropical Countercurrent and Its Variability to Global Warming.- Interannual Variations in Low Potential Vorticity Water and the Subtropical Countercurrent in an Eddy-Resolving OGCM.