“Hot Spots” in the Climate System New Developments in the Extratropical Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction Research /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Nakamura, Hisashi (Editor), Isobe, Atsuhiko (Editor), Minobe, Shoshiro (Editor), Mitsudera, Humio (Editor), Nonaka, Masami (Editor), Suga, Toshio (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Climatology.; Oceanography.; Atmospheric sciences.; Earth Sciences.; Atmospheric Sciences.

This book consists of the articles from the special issue of “‘Hot Spots’ in the Climate System” in the Journal of Oceanography, Vol. 71 No. 5, 2015, comprising 9 chapters that cover a wide spectrum of topics. This spinoff book is a collection of papers on the scientific outcomes of a nationwide 5-y...

Table of Contents:

• Oceanic fronts and jets around Japan: a review
• Climatological mean features and interannual to decadal variability of ring formations in the Kuroshio Extension region
• Marine atmospheric boundary layer and low-level cloud responses to the Kuroshio Extension front in the early summer of 2012: three-vessel simultaneous observations and numerical simulations
• Heat and salt budgets of the mixed layer around the Subarctic Front of the North Pacific Ocean
• Impact of downward heat penetration below the shallow seasonal thermocline on the sea surface temperature
• Early summertime interannual variability in surface and subsurface temperature in the North Pacific
• Local wind effect on the Kuroshio path state off the southeastern coast of Kyushu
• Unusually rapid intensification of Typhoon Man-yi in 2013 under pre-existing warm-water conditions near the Kuroshio front south of Japan
• Atlantic–Pacific asymmetry of subsurface temperature change and frontal response of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current for the recent three decades.