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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
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-year project funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) and known internationally as the “Hot-Spot Project.” The academic achievement of the project has gained international recognition, making substantial contribution to unveiling the climatic role of warm western boundary ocean currents, including the Kuroshio, and associated oceanic fronts characterized by sharp temperature gradients and active meso-scale oceanic eddies. Specifically, those warm currents may be called “hot spots” in the climate system, as they intensively release heat and moisture to the atmosphere, thereby acting to organize clouds and precipitation systems and set conditions favorable for recurrent development of storms. This spinoff is a unique collection of the outcome of the particular project. The collected papers cover a wide range of aspects of ocean–atmosphere interaction characteristic of the oceanic fronts and continental marginal seas, unveiled through observational, theoretical, analytical, and numerical investigations. Most of the readers of the book are assumed to be researchers and graduate students who study climate dynamics, physical oceanography, atmospheric science, and air–sea interaction.
Editors and Affiliations
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RCAST, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Hisashi Nakamura
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Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Japan
Atsuhiko Isobe
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Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Shoshiro Minobe
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Inst. of Low Temp. Sci., Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Humio Mitsudera
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JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Masami Nonaka
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Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
Toshio Suga
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: “Hot Spots” in the Climate System
Book Subtitle: New Developments in the Extratropical Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction Research
Editors: Hisashi Nakamura, Atsuhiko Isobe, Shoshiro Minobe, Humio Mitsudera, Masami Nonaka, Toshio Suga
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-56053-1
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Oceanographic Society of Japan and Springer Japan 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-56051-7Published: 30 March 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-56765-3Published: 25 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-56053-1Published: 17 March 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 170
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations, 105 illustrations in colour
Topics: Oceanography, Climatology, Atmospheric Sciences