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RISTwo-Layer Model on the Branching of the Kuroshio Southwest of Kyushu, Japan
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Observations suggest that a separation branch of the Kuroshio appears southwest of Kyushu, Japan. The observed density and surface current fields clearly show a separation branch in autumn. However, the separation branch ...
Driving Mechanism of Band Structure of Mean Current over the Continental Shelf
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A two-layer numerical model is used to investigate the continental-shelf circulation forced by western boundary currents along shelf edges. Emphasis is placed on an effect by frontal eddies (or frontal waves), which are ...
Ballooning of River-Plume Bulge and Its Stabilization by Tidal Currents
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: When freshwater debouches into an adjacent ocean, an anticyclonic eddy (bulge) is formed in front of the river mouth. It is well known that a bulge growing offshore (ballooning) hardly reaches a steady state in the absence ...
Annual Variation of the Kuroshio Transport in a Two-Layer Numerical Model with a Ridge
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A two-layer numerical model driven by the wind stress is used to explain the observed annual variation of the Kuroshio transport south of Japan. Special attention is given to the effect of a ridge, representing the ...
Lagrangian H/U3 Values Computed around Fronts Using a Fine-Resolution Numerical Model and Ferryboat-Monitored SST Dataset
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Front locations are identified as the local maximum of the sea surface temperature gradient revealed in the continuously ferryboat-monitored data in the Seto Inland Sea, Japan. In addition, Simpson and Hunter?s H/U3 values, ...
A Role of the Yellow and East China Seas in the Development of Extratropical Cyclones in Winter
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: o investigate whether the relatively warm Yellow and East China Seas play an active role in the deepening of extratropical cyclones over East Asia during winter, surface wind vectors downloaded from the Quick Scatterometer ...
Atmosphere and Marginal-Sea Interaction Leading to an Interannual Variation in Cold-Air Outbreak Activity over the Japan Sea
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The interannual variation in cold-air outbreak activity over the Japan Sea is investigated using Japan Meteorological Agency buoy 21002 and Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT) wind data, Japan Oceanographic Data Center sea ...
Atmosphere–Ocean Coupled Process along Coastal Areas of the Yellow and East China Seas in Winter
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: regional atmosphere?ocean coupled model is developed, based on the Pennsylvania State University?National Center for Atmospheric Research Mesoscale Model in conjunction with the Princeton Ocean Model, to investigate ...
Synoptic-Scale Atmospheric Motions Modulated by Spring Phytoplankton Bloom in the Sea of Japan
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: tmospheric responses to biological heating caused by the spring phytoplankton bloom in the Sea of Japan are investigated. Sea surface temperature (SST) is first computed using a mixed-layer model with an ocean reanalysis ...
Two-Way Particle-Tracking Model for Specifying Sources of Drifting Objects: Application to the East China Sea Shelf
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The two-way Lagrangian particle-tracking model (PTM) is proposed for specifying sources of objects drifting with random-walk processes on the sea surface. First, to determine object source candidates, modeled particles are ...