Oceanic fronts and jets around Japan: a review

被引:112
作者
Kida, Shinichiro [1 ]
Mitsudera, Humio [2 ]
Aoki, Shigeru [2 ]
Guo, Xinyu [3 ]
Ito, Shin-ichi [4 ]
Kobashi, Fumiaki [5 ]
Komori, Nobumasa [1 ]
Kubokawa, Atsushi [6 ]
Miyama, Toru [1 ]
Morie, Ryosuke [7 ]
Nakamura, Hisashi [1 ,8 ]
Nakamura, Tomohiro [2 ]
Nakano, Hideyuki [9 ]
Nishigaki, Hajime [10 ]
Nonaka, Masami [1 ]
Sasaki, Hideharu [1 ]
Sasaki, Yoshi N. [11 ]
Suga, Toshio [12 ]
Sugimoto, Shusaku [12 ]
Taguchi, Bunmei [1 ]
Takaya, Koutarou [13 ]
Tozuka, Tomoki [14 ]
Tsujino, Hiroyuki [9 ]
Usui, Norihisa [9 ]
机构
[1] Japan Agcy Marine Earth Sci & Technol, Applicat Lab, Kanazawa Ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 2360001, Japan
[2] Hokkaido Univ, Inst Low Temp Sci, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060, Japan
[3] Ehime Univ, Ctr Marine Environm Studies, Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan
[4] Univ Tokyo, Atmosphere & Ocean Res Inst, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
[5] Tokyo Univ Marine Sci & Technol, Grad Sch Marine Sci & Technol, Tokyo, Japan
[6] Hokkaido Univ, Fac Environm Earth Sci, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
[7] Hokkaido Univ, Grad Sch Environm Sci, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
[8] Univ Tokyo, Res Ctr Adv Sci & Technol, Tokyo, Japan
[9] Meteorol Res Inst, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
[10] Oita Univ, Fac Educ & Welf Sci, Oita 87011, Japan
[11] Hokkaido Univ, Grad Sch Sci, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
[12] Tohoku Univ, Grad Sch Sci, Dept Geophys, Sendai, Miyagi 980, Japan
[13] Kyoto Sangyo Univ, Fac Sci, Kyoto 603, Japan
[14] Univ Tokyo, Grad Sch Sci, Dept Earth & Planetary Sci, Tokyo 113, Japan
关键词
Oceanic fronts; Western North Pacific; Air-sea interaction; Kuroshio Extension; Kuroshio-Oyashio confluence region; Subtropical fronts; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; PACIFIC SUBTROPICAL COUNTERCURRENT; SETO INLAND SEA; HAWAIIAN LEE COUNTERCURRENT; EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; NORTH PACIFIC; KUROSHIO EXTENSION; GULF-STREAM; ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE;
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10.1007/s10872-015-0283-7
中图分类号
P7 [海洋学];
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摘要
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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