1. Zhu, S., Zhang, J., Liu, Q., Shiller, A., Du, C., Cao, Z., Guo, X., Cai, Y., & Liu, X. (2025). Quantifying nutrient supply to the eddy-influenced subtropical North Pacific upper ocean: Modified optimum multiparameter analysis using rare earth elements from three GEOTRACES cruises. Limnology and Oceanography, in press.

2. Yu, J., Cai, Y., Li, Y., Huang, W., Luo, L., Xu, M., Liu, J., Kao, S.-J., Zheng, N., Li, Q., Wang, H., & Du, C.* (2025). Decadal nutrient dynamics in a tropical bay: spatiotemporal variations and drivers in Haikou Bay and adjacent coastal waters (2010-2021). Marine Pollution Bulletin, 221, 118499.

3. Du, C., Dai, M., Liu, Z., Hu, Z., Yang, J.-Y. T., Zhou, K., Lin, H., Yuan, Z., Wang, L., Huang, T., Guo, L., Wang, Z., & Kao, S.-J. (2025). Diapycnal fluxes of nutrients in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. Global and Planetary Change, 253, 104973.

4. Du, C.,* Dai, M., Zhou, K., He, Y., & Kao, S.-J. (2025). Nutricline heaving regulates carbon export in the South China Sea. Progress in Oceanography, 232, 103437.

5. Yuan, Z.-X., Browning, T. J., Du, C., Shen, H., Wang, L., Ma, Y., Jiang, Z., Liu, Z., Zhou, K., Kao, S.-J., & Dai, M. (2023). Enhanced phosphate consumption stimulated by nitrogen fixation within a cyclonic eddy in the Northwest Pacific. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 128, e2023JC019947.

6. Liu, L., Chen, M., Wan, X. S., Du, C., Liu, Z., Hu, Z., Jiang, Z.-P., Zhou, K., Lin, H., Shen, H., Zhao, D., Yuan, L., Hou, L., Yang, J.-Y. T., Li, X., Kao, S.-J., Zakem, E. J., Qin, W., Dai, M., & Zhang, Y. (2023). Reduced nitrite accumulation at the primary nitrite maximum in the cyclonic eddies in the western North Pacific subtropical gyre. Science Advances, 9(33), eade2078.

7. Dai, M., Luo, Y.-W., Achterberg, E. P., Browning, T. J., Cai, Y., Cao, Z., Chai, F., Chen, B., Church, M. J., Ci, D., Du, C., Gao, K., Guo, X., Hu, Z., Kao, S.-J., Laws, E. A., Lee, Z., Lin, H., Liu, Q., Liu, X., Luo, W., Meng, F., Shang, S., Shi, D., Saito, H., Song, L., Wan, X. S., Wang, Y., Wang, W., Wen, Z., Xiu, P., Zhang, J., Zhang, R., & Zhou, K. (2023). Upper ocean biogeochemistry of the oligotrophic North Pacific subtropical gyre: From nutrient sources to carbon export. Reviews of Geophysics, 61, e2022RG000800.

8. Zhou, K., Xu, Y., Kao, S.-J., Xiu, P., Wan, X., Huang, B., Liu, X., Du, C., Sun, J., Sun, Z., & Dai, M. (2023). Changes in nutrient stoichiometry in responding to diatom growth in cyclonic eddies. Geoscience Letters, 10, 12.

9. Yuan, Z.-W., Browning, T. J., Zhang, R., Wang, C., Du, C., Wang, Y., Chen, Y., Liu, Z., Liu, X., Shi, D., & Dai, M. (2023). Potential drivers and consequences of regional phosphate depletion in the western subtropical North Pacific. Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 8, 509–518.

10. Yang, J.-Y., Tang, J.-M., Kang, S., Dai, M., Kao, S.-J., Yan, X., Xu, M. N., & Du, C. (2022). Comparison of nitrate isotopes between the South China Sea and western North Pacific Ocean: Insights into biogeochemical signals and water exchange. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 127(5), e2021JC018304.

11. Wen, Z., Browning, T. J., Cai, Y., Dai, R., Zhang, R., Du, C., Jiang, R., Lin, W., Liu, X., Cao, Z., Hong, H., Dai, M., & Shi, D. (2022). Nutrient regulation of biological nitrogen fixation across the tropical western North Pacific. Science Advances, 8(5), eabl7564.

12. Zhu, Y., Liu, J., Mulholland, M., Du, C., Wang, L., Widner, B., Huang, T., Yang, Y., & Dai, M. (2021). Dynamics of ammonium biogeochemistry in an oligotrophic regime in the South China Sea. Marine Chemistry, 237, 104040.

13. Du, C., He, R., Liu, Z., Huang, T., Wang, L., Yuan, Z., Xu, Y., Wang, Z., & Dai, M. (2021). Climatology of nutrient distributions in the South China Sea based on a large data set derived from a new algorithm. Progress in Oceanography, 195, 102586.

14. Du, C., Gan, J., Hui, C. R., Lu, Z., Zhao, Z., Roberts, E., & Dai, M. (2020). Dynamics of dissolved inorganic carbon in the South China Sea: A modeling study. Progress in Oceanography, 186, 102367.

15. Cao, Z., Yang, W., Zhao, Y., Guo, X., Yin, Z., Du, C., Zhao, H., & Dai, M. (2020). Diagnosis of CO2 dynamics and fluxes in global coastal oceans. National Science Review.

16. Xie, T., Newton, R., Schlosser, P., Du, C., & Dai, M. (2019). Long-term mean mass, heat and nutrient flux through the Indonesian Seas, based on the tritium inventory in the Pacific and Indian oceans. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.

17. Xiu, P., Dai, M., Chai, F., Zhou, K., Zeng, L., & Du, C. (2018). On contributions by wind-induced mixing and eddy pumping to interannual chlorophyll variability during different ENSO phases in the northern South China Sea. Limnology and Oceanography.

18. Du, C., Liu, Z., Kao, S.-J., & Dai, M. (2017). Diapycnal fluxes of nutrients in an oligotrophic oceanic regime: The South China Sea. Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 2017GL074921.

19. Qian, W., Dai, M., Xu, M., Kao, S.-J., Du, C., Liu, J. W., Wang, H. J., Guo, L. G., & Wang, L. F. (2017). Non-local drivers of the summer hypoxia in the East China Sea off the Changjiang Estuary. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science.

20. Wu, K., Dai, M. H., Chen, J. H., Meng, F. F., Li, X. L., Liu, Z. Y., Du, C., & Gan, J. P. (2015). Dissolved organic carbon in the South China Sea and its exchange with the Western Pacific Ocean. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 122, 41–51.

21. Du, C., Liu, Z. Y., Dai, M. H., Kao, S. J., Cao, Z. M., Zhang, Y., Huang, T., Wang, L. F., & Li, Y. (2013). Impact of the Kuroshio intrusion on the nutrient inventory in the upper northern South China Sea: Insights from an isopycnal mixing model. Biogeosciences, 10, 1–14.

22. Dai, M., Cao, Z. M., Guo, X. H., Zhai, W. D., Liu, Z. Y., Yin, Z. Q., Xu, Y. P., Gan, J. P., Hu, J. Y., & Du, C. (2013). Why are some marginal seas sources of atmospheric CO₂? Geophysical Research Letters, 40, 2154–2158.

23. 王丽芳, 黄韬, 杜川军, 郭香会 (2021). 不同海水营养盐现场连续观测系统的比较研究. 热带海洋学报, 40(3), 103–113.