Manuscript in preparation/submitted (preprints available upon request)
Ito T. and M.J. Follows (2010), "Carbon pumps and the air-sea equilibration of CO2", manuscript in preparation.
Ito T., R. Hamme and S. Emerson, (2010), "Spatial and temporal variability of the noble gas tracers in the North Pacific", submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans.
Jones D., T. Ito and N. Lovenduski (2010), "The transient response of the Southern Ocean pycnocline to changing atmospheric winds", submitted to Geophysical Research Letters.
Woloszyn M., M. Mazloff and T. Ito (2010), "Testing an eddy-permitting model of the Southern Ocean carbon cycle against observations", to appear in Ocean Modelling.
Published papers
Ito T. and C. Deutsch (2010), "A conceptual model for the temporal spectrum of oceanic oxygen variability", Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L03601, doi:10.1029/2009GL041595 [PDF]
Ito T., M. Woloszyn and M. Mazloff, (2010), "Anthropogenic carbon dioxide transport in the Southern Ocean driven by Ekman flow", Nature, 463, 80-83 [PDF]
Lovenduski N.S. and T. Ito, (2009), "The future evlolution of the Southern Ocean CO2 sink", Journal of Marine Research, 67(5), 597-617, doi:10.1357/002224009791218832 [PDF]
Van Roekel L., T. Ito, P. T. Haertel and D. A. Randall (2009), "Lagrangian Analysis of the Meridional Overturning Circulation in an Idealized Ocean Basin", Journal of Physical Oceanography, 39(9),2175-2193 [PDF]
Ito T. and J.C. Marshall (2008), "Control of lower-limb overturning circulation in the Southern Ocean by diapycnal mixing and mesoscale eddy fluxes", Journal of Physical Oceanography, 38(12),2832-2845 [PDF]
Ito, T., C. Deutsch, S. Emerson and R. Hamme (2007), "The impact of diapycnal mixing on the observed argon distribution in the subtropical North Pacific", Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L09602, doi:10.1029/2006GL029209 [PDF]
Ito T. and C. Deutsch (2006), "Understanding the saturation state of argon in the thermocline: The role of air-sea gas exchange and diapycnal mixing", Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 20, GB3019, doi:10.1029/2005GB002655 [PDF]
Parekh P., M. J. Follows, S. Dutkiewicz and T. Ito (2006), "Physical and biological regulation of the soft tissue carbon pump", Paleoceanography, 21, PA3001, doi:10.1029/2005PA001258 [PDF]
Follows M., T. Ito and S. Dutkiewicz (2006), "Solving the carbonate chemistry system in ocean biogeochemistry models", Ocean Modeling, 12 (3-4), 290-301 [PDF]
Parekh P., S. Dutkiewicz, M.J. Follows and T. Ito, (2006), "Atmospheric carbon dioxide in a less dusty world", Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L03610, doi:10.1029/2005GL025098 [PDF]
Ito T. and M.J. Follows, (2005), "Preformed phosphate, Soft tissue pump, and atmospheric CO2", Journal of Marine Research, 63, 813-139 [PDF]
Ito T., P. Parekh, S. Duekiewicz, and M. Follows, (2005), "The Antarctic Circumpolar Productivity Belt", Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L13604, doi:10.1029/2005GL023021 [PDF]
Ito T., M. Follows and E.A. Boyle (2004), "Is AOU a good measure of respiration in the oceans?", Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L17305, doi:10.1029/2004GL020900 [PDF]
Ito T., J.C. Marshall and M.J. Follows, (2004), "What controls the uptake of transient tracers in the Southern Ocean?", Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 18(2), GB2021, doi:10.1029/2003GB002103 [PDF]
Ito T. and M.J. Follows, (2003), "Upper ocean control on the solubility pump of CO2", Journal of Marine Research, 61(4), 461-489 [PDF]
Follows M.J., T. Ito and J. Marotzke, (2002), "The oceans' subtropical gyres and atmospheric pCO2", Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 16(4), doi:10.1029/2001GB001786 [PDF]
Book Chapter
Ito T. and A. Kleidon (2004), "Entropy production of atmospheric heat transport", in Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and the Production of Entropy: Life, Earth, and Beyond ; Kleidon A, Lorenz R D (eds) Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg. pp.93-106
Conference Posters
Takano Y., T. Ito and C. Deutsch (2010), "What Controls the Temporal Variability of Oxygen in the Gulf of Alaska?", Abstract OS51A-1261 presented at 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 13-17 Dec. [PDF]
Jones D., T. Ito and N. Lovenduski (2010), "The Transient Response of the Southern Ocean Pycnocline to Changing Atmospheric Winds", Abstract OS53B-1384 presented at 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 13-17 Dec. [PDF]
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