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Masaaki Wakatsuchi

Masaaki Wakatsuchi

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5072
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Overview

Masaaki Wakatsuchi is a researcher affiliated with Hokkaido University in Japan. Their work primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with an emphasis on Oceanography and Atmospheric Science as subfields of study.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Marine and environmental studies
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics

Masaaki Wakatsuchi has contributed to publications in notable scientific venues such as Progress In Oceanography and the Journal of Oceanography.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Wakatsuchi include:

  • Iron and nutrient dynamics along the East Kamchatka Current, western Bering Sea Basin and Gulf of Anadyr, 2021, Progress In Oceanography
  • Long-term observation of the Soya Warm Current using HF ocean radars: relationship between the Soya Warm Current variability and the sea level anomalies in the Soya/La Perouse Strait, 2024, Journal of Oceanography

Their research collaborations involve frequent co-authorship with a number of scientists including Jun Nishioka, Kazuya Ono, Humio Mitsudera, Naoto Ebuchi, and Toru Hirawake.

Best Publications

  • Antarctic Bottom Water production by intense sea-ice formation in the Cape Darnley polynya

    Kay I. Ohshima;Yasushi Fukamachi;Guy D. Williams;Sohey Nihashi

  • Near-surface circulation and tidal currents of the Okhotsk Sea observed with satellite-tracked drifters

    Kay I. Ohshima;Masaaki Wakatsuchi;Yasushi Fukamachi;Genta Mizuta

  • Distribution and formation of Okhotsk Sea Intermediate Water: An analysis of isopycnal climatological data

    Motoyo Itoh;Kay I. Ohshima;Masaaki Wakatsuchi

  • Reconstruction of paleoproductivity in the Sea of Okhotsk over the last 30 kyr

    O. Seki;M. Ikehara;M. Ikehara;K. Kawamura;T. Nakatsuka

  • Warming and oxygen decrease of intermediate water in the northwestern North Pacific, originating from the Sea of Okhotsk, 1955–2004

    Takuya Nakanowatari;Kay I. Ohshima;Masaaki Wakatsuchi

  • Relationship between sea-ice motion and geostrophic wind in the northern hemisphere

    Noriaki Kimura;Masaaki Wakatsuchi

  • Formation of 26.8–26.9 σθ water in the Kuril Basin of the Sea of Okhotsk as a possible origin of North Pacific Intermediate Water

    Tatsuro Watanabe;Masaaki Wakatsuchi

  • Ice-rafted debris (IRD)-based sea-ice expansion events during the past 100 kyrs in the Okhotsk Sea

    Tatsuhiko Sakamoto;M. Ikehara;K. Aoki;K. Iijima

  • Structure and Seasonal Variability of the East Sakhalin Current

    Genta Mizuta;Yasushi Fukamachi;Kay I. Ohshima;Masaaki Wakatsuchi

  • Processes controlling the advance and retreat of sea ice in the Sea of Okhotsk

    Noriaki Kimura;Masaaki Wakatsuchi

  • Dissolved and particulate organic carbon in the Sea of Okhotsk: Transport from continental shelf to ocean interior

    Takeshi Nakatsuka;Mari Toda;Kimitaka Kawamura;Masaaki Wakatsuchi

  • Measurements of salinity and volume of brine excluded from growing sea ice

    Masaaki Wakatsuchi;Nobuo Ono

  • Intensive mixing along an island chain controls oceanic biogeochemical cycles

    Jun Nishioka;Takeshi Nakatsuka;Yutaka W. Watanabe;Ichiro Yasuda

  • Strong export of Antarctic Bottom Water east of the Kerguelen plateau

    Y. Fukamachi;S. R. Rintoul;S. R. Rintoul;J. A. Church;J. A. Church;S. Aoki

  • Radiolarians under the seasonally sea-ice covered conditions in the Okhotsk Sea: flux and their implications for paleoceanography

    Yusuke Okazaki;Kozo Takahashi;Hiroshi Yoshitani;Takeshi Nakatsuka

  • Biogenic opal indicating less productive northwestern North Pacific during the glacial ages

    Hisashi Narita;Masayasu Sato;Shizuo Tsunogai;Masafumi Murayama

  • Distribution, formation, and seasonal variability of Okhotsk Sea Mode Water

    Sergey Gladyshev;Lynne Talley;Gennady Kantakov;Gennady Khen

  • Thickness distribution, texture and stratigraphy, and a simple probabilistic model for dynamical thickening of sea ice in the southern Sea of Okhotsk

    Takenobu Toyota;Toshiyuki Kawamura;Kay I. Ohshima;Haruhito Shimoda

  • Sverdrup Balance and the Cyclonic Gyre in the Sea of Okhotsk

    Kay I. Ohshima;Daisuke Simizu;Motoyo Itoh;Genta Mizuta

  • An extremely turbid intermediate water in the Sea of Okhotsk: Implication for the transport of particulate organic matter in a seasonally ice-bound sea

    Takeshi Nakatsuka;Chisato Yoshikawa;Mari Toda;Kimitaka Kawamura

Frequent Co-Authors

Kay I. Ohshima
Kay I. Ohshima Hokkaido University
Takeshi Nakatsuka
Takeshi Nakatsuka Nagoya University
Kimitaka Kawamura
Kimitaka Kawamura Chubu University
Minoru Ikehara
Minoru Ikehara Kōchi University
Stephen C. Riser
Stephen C. Riser University of Washington
Jun Nishioka
Jun Nishioka Hokkaido University
Ichiro Yasuda
Ichiro Yasuda University of Tokyo
Shizuo Tsunogai
Shizuo Tsunogai Hokkaido University
Lynne D. Talley
Lynne D. Talley University of California, San Diego
Seelye Martin
Seelye Martin University of Washington

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