scholarly journals Influx of the Kuroshio Current into the Okinawa Trough and Inauguration of Quaternary Coral-Reef Building in the Ryukyu Island Arc, Japan.

1992 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 359-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Motoharu Koba
Keyword(s):  
Coral Reef ◽  
Okinawa Trough ◽  
Kuroshio Current ◽  
Island Arc ◽  
Ryukyu Island ◽  
The Okinawa Trough ◽  
The Kuroshio

A biomarker record of temperature and phytoplankton community structure in the Okinawa Trough since the last glacial maximum

2017 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiaping Ruan ◽  
Yunping Xu ◽  
Su Ding ◽  
Yinghui Wang ◽  
Xinyu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Phytoplankton Community ◽  
Okinawa Trough ◽  
Kuroshio Current ◽  
Community Change ◽  
Community Structures ◽  
Ocean Drilling Program ◽  
The Holocene ◽  
The Okinawa Trough ◽  
The Kuroshio ◽  
The Last Glacial

AbstractA variety of biomarkers were examined from Ocean Drilling Program Core 1202B to reconstruct temperature and phytoplankton community structures in the southern Okinawa Trough since 20 ka. Two molecular temperature proxies ( $${\rm U}_{{37}}^{{{\rm K}\prime}} $$ and TEX86) show 5°C to ~6°C warming during the glacial-interglacial transition. Prior to the Holocene, the $${\rm U}_{{37}}^{{{\rm K}\prime}} $$ -derived temperature was generally 1°C to 4°C higher than TEX86-derived temperature. This difference, however, was reduced to <1°C in the Holocene. Correspondingly, the phytoplankton biomarkers (e.g., C37:2 alkenone, brassicasterol, C30 1,15 diol, and dinosterol) indicate a shift of planktonic community structures, with coccolithophorids becoming more abundant in the Holocene at the expense of diatoms/dinoflagellates. This shift is related to the variability of nutrients, temperature, and salinity in the Okinawa Trough, likely controlled by the sea level and the intensity of the Kuroshio Current. The phytoplankton community change may have had profound implications for atmospheric CO2 fluctuations during glacial-interglacial cycles since diatoms and dinoflagellates have a higher efficiency of the biological pump than coccolithophorids.

Variation in subsurface water temperature and its link to the Kuroshio Current in the Okinawa Trough during the last 38.5 kyr

2017 ◽  
Vol 452 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshimi Kubota ◽  
Nozomi Suzuki ◽  
Katsunori Kimoto ◽  
Masao Uchida ◽  
Takuya Itaki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Temperature ◽  
Okinawa Trough ◽  
Kuroshio Current ◽  
Subsurface Water ◽  
The Okinawa Trough ◽  
The Kuroshio

scholarly journals The Holocene Pulleniatina Minimum Event revisited: Geochemical and faunal evidence from the Okinawa Trough and upper reaches of the Kuroshio current

2006 ◽  
Vol 59 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 153-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Shih Lin ◽  
Kuo-Yen Wei ◽  
In-Tian Lin ◽  
Pai-Sen Yu ◽  
Hong-Wei Chiang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Okinawa Trough ◽  
Kuroshio Current ◽  
The Holocene ◽  
The Okinawa Trough ◽  
The Kuroshio

Holocene variability of the Kuroshio Current in the Okinawa Trough, northwestern Pacific Ocean

2000 ◽  
Vol 184 (1) ◽  
pp. 305-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhimin Jian ◽  
Pinxian Wang ◽  
Yoshiki Saito ◽  
Jiliang Wang ◽  
Uwe Pflaumann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Okinawa Trough ◽  
Kuroshio Current ◽  
Northwestern Pacific ◽  
Northwestern Pacific Ocean ◽  
The Okinawa Trough ◽  
The Kuroshio

scholarly journals Seismic structure of rifting in the Okinawa Trough, an active backarc basin of the Ryukyu (Nansei-Shoto) island arc–trench system

2019 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Azusa Nishizawa ◽  
Kentaro Kaneda ◽  
Mitsuhiro Oikawa ◽  
Daishi Horiuchi ◽  
Yukari Fujioka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Okinawa Trough ◽  
Island Arc ◽  
Seismic Structure ◽  
Backarc Basin ◽  
The Okinawa Trough

scholarly journals Riding the Kuroshio Current: Stepping stone dispersal of the Okinawa tree lizard across the East Asian Island Arc

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shang-Fang Yang ◽  
Shohei Komaki ◽  
Rafe M. Brown ◽  
Si-Min Lin
Keyword(s):  
East Asian ◽  
Kuroshio Current ◽  
Island Arc ◽  
Stepping Stone ◽  
Tree Lizard ◽  
The Kuroshio
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