Refereed Publication

14. Kawai, Y., S. Katsura, and S. Hosoda, 2024:

Spatiotemporal Variations in Upper‐Ocean Salinity Over the North Pacific in 2004–2021.

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129, e2023JC020309. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JC020309. [Link]

13. Kido, S., S. Katsura, M. Nonaka, and Y. Tanimoto, 2023: 

Mechanism and impact of zonally contrasting seasonal variations in sea-surface salinity in the North Pacific and North Atlantic oceans.

Progress in Oceanography, 219, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103124.  [Link]

12. Katsura, S., J. Sprintall, S. Kido, Y. Tanimoto, and M. Nonaka, 2023: 

Classification of Interannual Surface Layer Salinity Variability.

Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2022GL102261. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL102261 [Link]

11. Katsura, S., J. Sprintall, J. T. Farrar, D. Zhang, and M. F. Cronin, 2022: 

The Barrier Layer Effect on the Heat and Freshwater Balance from Moored Observations in the Eastern Pacific Fresh Pool.

Journal of Physical Oceanography, 52,  1705-1730. https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-21-0243.1 [Link]

10. Katsura, S., J. Sprintall, and F. M. Bingham, 2021:

Upper Ocean Stratification in the Eastern Pacific during the SPURS-2 Field Campaign.

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126, e2020JC016591. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JC016591 [Link]

9.  Bingham, F. M.,  Z. Li, S. Katsura, and J. Sprintall, 2020:

Barrier Layers in a High‐resolution Model in the Eastern Tropical Pacific.

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 125, e2020JC016643. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JC016643 [Link]

8.  Katsura, S. and J. Sprintall, 2020: 

Seasonality and Formation of Barrier Layers and Associated Temperature Inversions in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific.

Journal of Physical Oceanography, 50, 791-808  [Link]

7.  Katsura, S., H. Ueno, H. Mitsudera, and S. Kouketsu, 2020: 

Spatial Distribution and Seasonality of Halocline Structures in the Subarctic North Pacific. 

Journal of Physical Oceanography, 50, 95-109 [Link] 

6.  Ohishi, S., S. Katsura, and H. Aiki, 2019: 

Salinity frontogenesis/frontolysis in the northeastern subtropical Pacific region.

Climate Dynamics, 53, 5927-5943 [Link] 

5.  Katsura S., 2018:

Properties, Formation, and Dissipation of the North Pacific Eastern Subtropical Mode Water and Its Impact on Interannual Spiciness Anomalies.

Progress in Oceanography, 162, 120-131.  [Link]

4.  Oka, E., S. Katsura, H. Inoue, A. Kojima, M. Kitamoto, T. Nakano, and T. Suga, 2017:

Long-term change and variation of salinity in the western North Pacific subtropical gyre revealed by 50-year long observations along 137E.

Journal of Oceanography, 73, 479-490.  [Link: open access].

3.  Katsura S., E. Oka, and K. Sato, 2015:

Formation Mechanism of Barrier Layer in the Subtropical Pacific.

Journal of Physical Oceanography, 45, 2790-2805.  [Link]

2.  Oka E., K. Uehara, T. Nakano, T. Suga, D. Yanagimoto, S. Kouketsu, S. Itoh, S. Katsura, and L. D. Talley, 2014:

Synoptic observation of Central Mode Water in its formation region in spring 2003.

Journal of Oceanography, 70, 521-534.  [Link]

1.  Katsura S., E. Oka, B. Qiu, and N. Schneider, 2013:

Formation and Subduction of North Pacific Tropical Water and Their Interannual Variability.

Journal of Physical Oceanography, 43, 2400-2415.  [Link]