Working Group 1: Okhotsk Sea and Oyashio Region
  • Acronym: WG 1
  • Parent Committee: POC
  • Term: Oct.1992 - Oct. 1993
  • Chair: Lynne D. Talley (USA)
Terms of Reference
  1. Review the present level of the knowledge of the oceanic circulation and water mass modification in the area, and identify gaps in this knowledge;
  2. Review studies relating chemical, biological and geographical regime, and encourage interactive understanding and planning of multidisciplinary experiments;
  3. Identify the scientific and logical difficulties of ocean studies in the area;
  4. Encourage the planning of experiments and discussion of related physical process in the area.
Products
Annual Meetings

Reports

1993 (Science Board Committee, POC)

PICES Scientific Reports
PICES Sci. Rep. No. 26, 2004
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on the Okhotsk Sea and Adjacent Area

PICES Sci. Rep. No. 12, 1999
Proceedings of Workshop on the Okhotsk Sea and Adjacent Area

PICES Sci. Rep. No. 6, 1996
Proceedings of Workshop on the Okhotsk Sea and Adjacent Area

PICES Sci. Rep. No. 2, 1995
The Okhotsk Sea and Oyashio Regio
Members
R.J. Beamish
Pacific Biological Station
Hammond Bay Road
Nanaimo, B.C.,
Canada. V9R 5K6
Ed Carmack
Department of Fisheries & Oceans
Institute of Ocean Sciences
P.O. Box 6000,
Sidney, B.C.,
Canada. V8L 4B2
Makoto Kashiwai
Fisheries Oceanography Division
Hokkaido National Fisheries Research Institute
116 Katsurakoi,
Kushiro, Hokkaido,
Japan. 085
Yutaka Nagata
Department of Earth and Planetary Physics
University of Tokyo
2-11-16 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku,
Tokyo,
Japan. 113
Hiroyuki Yoritaka
Japan
Ming-Yu Zhou
National Marine Environmental Forecasting Ctr.
8 Dahuisi, Haidian District,
Beijing,
PR China. 100081
John L. Bullister
Pacifc Marine Environmental Laboratory
Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, NOAA
7600 Sand Point Way NE
Seattle, WA 98115-0070
U.S.A.
Stephen C. Riser
School of Oceanography, WB-10
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-6000
U.S.A.
Lynne D. Talley
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0230
U.S.A.