Changing Asia-Pacific Marginal Seas

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Introduction

   • Chen-Tung Arthur Chen, Xinyu Guo

   Pages 1-4

3. Changes in Temperature, Chlorophyll Concentration, and Secchi Disk Depth in the Bering Sea from 1998 to 2016

   • Chen-Tung Arthur Chen, Shujie Yu, Ting-Hsuan Huang, Yan Bai, Xianqiang He

   Pages 5-18

4. Long-Term Trend and Interannual to Decadal Variability in the Sea of Okhotsk

   • Takuya Nakanowatari, Humio Mitsudera

   Pages 19-56

5. Changes in Temperature, Chlorophyll Concentration, and Secchi Disk Depth in the Okhotsk Sea from 1998 to 2016

   • Chen-Tung Arthur Chen, Shujie Yu, Ting-Hsuan Huang, Yan Bai, Xianqiang He

   Pages 57-68

6. Long-Term Changes in the Abyssal Japan Sea (East Sea): A Physical View

   • Tomoharu Senjyu

   Pages 69-85

7. Anthropogenic Perturbations of the Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles in the East Sea (Sea of Japan)

   • Kitack Lee, Eunil Lee, Chang-Ho Lee

   Pages 87-103

8. The Changing Bohai and Yellow Seas: A Physical View

   • Hao Wei, Haiyan Zhang, Wei Yang, Jianlong Feng, Cuicui Zhang

   Pages 105-120

9. Changing Nutrients, Dissolved Oxygen and Carbonate System in the Bohai and Yellow Seas, China

   • Wei-dong Zhai, Li-wen Zheng, Cheng-long Li, Tian-qi Xiong, Song-yin Wang

   Pages 121-137

10. The Changing East China Sea—A Physical View

    • Takeshi Matsuno

    Pages 139-153

11. Changing Nutrients, Oxygen and Phytoplankton in the East China Sea

    • Jianfang Chen, Dewang Li, Haiyan Jin, Zhibing Jiang, Bin Wang, Bin Wu et al.

    Pages 155-178

12. The Changing Circulation of Asia-Pacific Marginal Seas in the South China Sea: A Physical View

    • Jianping Gan, Zhiqiang Liu, Chiwing Rex Hui, Yao Tang, Zhongya Cai, Junlu Li

    Pages 179-201

13. Changing Biogeochemistry in the South China Sea

    • Chen-Tung Arthur Chen, Shujie Yu, Ting-Hsuan Huang, Hon-Kit Lui, Yan Bai, Xianqiang He

    Pages 203-216

14. Interdecadal Variations of the Oyashio and Extreme Cold Water Events Near the Japanese Coast from the 1960s to the 2010s

    • Hiroshi Kuroda, Yuko Toya, Shigeho Kakehi, Takashi Setou

    Pages 217-244

15. Multidecadal Variations of Sea Surface CO₂ Fugacity (fCO₂) in the Oyashio Current-Influenced Ocean Margin

    • Hongjie Wang, Xinping Hu

    Pages 245-263

16. Changing Kuroshio and Its Affected Shelf Sea: A Physical View

    • Hirohiko Nakamura

    Pages 265-305

17. Transient Carbonate Chemistry in the Expanded Kuroshio Region

    • Hon-Kit Lui, Chen-Tung Arthur Chen, Wei-Ping Hou, Shujie Yu, Jui-Wen Chan, Yan Bai et al.

    Pages 307-320

This book discusses temporal changes in six Asia-Pacific marginal seas and two west boundary currents in the Northwest Pacific. Covering time scales varying from years to decades, it provides a comprehensive review of the long-term changes in various physical variables, including sea level, sea surface temperature, water mass index, current and transport, as well as local issues such as sea ice and tidal mixing, and the processes and dynamics that govern them. The book also examines biogeochemical variables, such as nutrients, oxygen, pH, water transparency, ocean acidification, eutrophication and productivity, and explores future trends.

Offering a holistic view of the changes that have occurred in the Asia-Pacific marginal seas and those that are likely to occur in the future, this book will appeal to readers from all fields of oceanography.

• Asia-Pacific Marginal Seas
• Sea Level of Asia Pacific
• Sea Surface Temperature
• Water Mass
• Current and Transport
• Nutrients in Marginal Seas
• Oxygen Changes in Asia Pacific
• pH of Water
• Ocean Acidification
• Eutrophication

• Department of Oceanography, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

  Chen-Tung Arthur Chen

• Center for Marine Environmental Studies, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan

  Xinyu Guo

Chen-Tung Arthur Chen has been a Professor of the Department of Oceanography since 1985. He has sat on numerous international committees, including the International Geoshpere-Bioshpere Programme(vice chair between 2009-2015), the IGBP/IHDP/WCRP/DIVERSITAS GCP, MAIRS, SCOR and WOCE. He also served as one of the executives of the JGOFS SSC between 1992–1995. Prior to that, he had helped to form the Joint JGOFS/LOICZ Marginal Seas Task Team in 1991, and served as its chairman until 1995. Prof. Chen is an associate editor of Mar. Chem. (since 1993), Cont. Shelf Res. (Since Oct. 2016), Acta Oceanol. Sin. (Since Oct. 2016), and an editorial board member of J. Marine Syst. (since 2001), Acta Oceanol. Sin. (2004 – Sept. 2016) and Cont. Shelf Res. (2007 – Sept. 2016). He also served as an editor of the J. Oceanogr. between 1998 and 2010. Prof. Chen's specialty is on the nutrients and carbon cycle in the oceans, ocean acidification (including hydrothermal systems), global change (including paleoclimates) and sediment heavy metals. His recent work is across disciplines toward integrated Earth System science on the regional to global scales. Besides having 400 of his own scientific papers published, he was awarded the highly-coveted 5M¥ Biwako Prize for Ecology from Japan in 1997 and is a Chair Professor of the NSYSU since 2006.

Xinyu Guo has been a professor of Center for Marine Environmental Studies, Ehime University since 2014. He mainly studies circulations and nutrient transport in the Kuroshio and the adjacent shelf seas using numerical models and historical data analysis. He has published more than 100 papers on these topics. He served as an editor for Journal of Oceanography from 2006 to 2014.

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