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

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 4431567658
• ISBN13: 9784431567653
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 11.0"