TY - CHAP
T1 - Oceanic fronts and jets around Japan
T2 - A review
AU - Kida, Shinichiro
AU - Mitsudera, Humio
AU - Aoki, Shigeru
AU - Guo, Xinyu
AU - Ito, Shin Ichi
AU - Kobashi, Fumiaki
AU - Komori, Nobumasa
AU - Kubokawa, Atsushi
AU - Miyama, Toru
AU - Morie, Ryosuke
AU - Nakamura, Hisashi
AU - Nakamura, Tomohiro
AU - Nakano, Hideyuki
AU - Nishigaki, Hajime
AU - Nonaka, Masami
AU - Sasaki, Hideharu
AU - Sasaki, Yoshi N.
AU - Suga, Toshio
AU - Sugimoto, Shusaku
AU - Taguchi, Bunmei
AU - Takaya, Koutarou
AU - Tozuka, Tomoki
AU - Tsujino, Hiroyuki
AU - Usui, Norihisa
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - This article reviews progress in our understanding of oceanic fronts around Japan and their roles in air–sea interaction. Fronts associated with the Kuroshio and its extension, fronts within the area of the Kuroshio-Oyashio confluence, and the subtropical fronts are described with particular emphasis on their structure, variability, and role in air–sea interaction. The discussion also extends to the fronts in the coastal and marginal seas, the Seto Inland Sea and Japan Sea. Studies on oceanic fronts have progressed significantly during the past decade, but many of these studies focus on processes at individual fronts and do not provide a comprehensive view. Hence, one of the goals of this article is to review the oceanic fronts around Japan by describing the processes based on common metrics. These metrics focus primarily on surface properties to obtain insights into air–sea interactions that occur along oceanic fronts. The basic characteristics derived for each front (i.e., metrics) are then presented as a table. We envision that many of the coupled ocean-atmosphere global circulation models in the coming decade will represent oceanic fronts reasonably well, and it is hoped that this review along with the table of metrics will provide a useful benchmark for evaluating these models.
AB - This article reviews progress in our understanding of oceanic fronts around Japan and their roles in air–sea interaction. Fronts associated with the Kuroshio and its extension, fronts within the area of the Kuroshio-Oyashio confluence, and the subtropical fronts are described with particular emphasis on their structure, variability, and role in air–sea interaction. The discussion also extends to the fronts in the coastal and marginal seas, the Seto Inland Sea and Japan Sea. Studies on oceanic fronts have progressed significantly during the past decade, but many of these studies focus on processes at individual fronts and do not provide a comprehensive view. Hence, one of the goals of this article is to review the oceanic fronts around Japan by describing the processes based on common metrics. These metrics focus primarily on surface properties to obtain insights into air–sea interactions that occur along oceanic fronts. The basic characteristics derived for each front (i.e., metrics) are then presented as a table. We envision that many of the coupled ocean-atmosphere global circulation models in the coming decade will represent oceanic fronts reasonably well, and it is hoped that this review along with the table of metrics will provide a useful benchmark for evaluating these models.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-4-431-56053-1_1
DO - 10.1007/978-4-431-56053-1_1
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84978194395
SN - 9784431560517
SP - 1
EP - 30
BT - Hot Spots in the Climate System
PB - Springer Japan
ER -