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“Hot Spots” in the Climate System

New Developments in the Extratropical Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction Research

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Editors:
  1. Hisashi Nakamura

    1. RCAST, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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  2. Atsuhiko Isobe

    1. Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Japan

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  3. Shoshiro Minobe

    1. Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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  4. Humio Mitsudera

    1. Inst. of Low Temp. Sci., Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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  5. Masami Nonaka

    1. JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

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  6. Toshio Suga

    1. Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Oceanic fronts and jets around Japan: a review

    • Shinichiro Kida, Humio Mitsudera, Shigeru Aoki, Xinyu Guo, Shin-ichi Ito, Fumiaki Kobashi et al.
    Pages 1-30

  3. Climatological mean features and interannual to decadal variability of ring formations in the Kuroshio Extension region

    • Yoshi N. Sasaki, Shoshiro Minobe
    Pages 31-41

  4. 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

    • Yoshimi Kawai, Toru Miyama, Satoshi Iizuka, Atsuyoshi Manda, Mayumi K. Yoshioka, Shuichiro Katagiri et al.
    Pages 43-58

  5. Heat and salt budgets of the mixed layer around the Subarctic Front of the North Pacific Ocean

    • Vincent Faure, Yoshimi Kawai
    Pages 59-72

  6. Impact of downward heat penetration below the shallow seasonal thermocline on the sea surface temperature

    • Shigeki Hosoda, Masami Nonaka, Tomohiko Tomita, Bunmei Taguchi, Hiroyuki Tomita, Naoto Iwasaka
    Pages 73-89

  7. Early summertime interannual variability in surface and subsurface temperature in the North Pacific

    • Shigeki Hosoda, Masami Nonaka, Yoshikazu Sasai, Hideharu Sasaki
    Pages 91-107

  8. Local wind effect on the Kuroshio path state off the southeastern coast of Kyushu

    • Hirohiko Nakamura, Riku Hiranaka, Daisuke Ambe, Tsutomu Saito
    Pages 109-130

  9. Unusually rapid intensification of Typhoon Man-yi in 2013 under preexisting warm-water conditions near the Kuroshio front south of Japan

    • Akiyoshi Wada
    Pages 131-156

  10. Atlantic–Pacific asymmetry of subsurface temperature change and frontal response of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current for the recent three decades

    • Shigeru Aoki, Genta Mizuta, Hideharu Sasaki, Yoshikazu Sasai, Stephen R. Rintoul, Nathaniel L. Bindoff
    Pages 157-170
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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

  • RCAST, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Hisashi Nakamura

  • Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Japan

    Atsuhiko Isobe

  • Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

    Shoshiro Minobe

  • Inst. of Low Temp. Sci., Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

    Humio Mitsudera

  • JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

    Masami Nonaka

  • 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

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