“Hot Spots” in the Climate System

1. Oceanic fronts and jets around Japan: a review
Shinichiro Kida, Humio Mitsudera, Shigeru Aoki, Xinyu Guo, Shin-ichi Ito, Fumiaki Kobashi, Nobumasa Komori, Atsushi Kubokawa, Toru Miyama, Ryosuke Morie, Hisashi Nakamura, Tomohiro Nakamura, Hideyuki Nakano, Hajime Nishigaki, Masami Nonaka, Hideharu Sasaki, Yoshi N. Sasaki, Toshio Suga, Shusaku Sugimoto, Bunmei Taguchi, Koutarou Takaya, Tomoki Tozuka, Hiroyuki Tsujino, Norihisa Usui

2. Climatological mean features and interannual to decadal variability of ring formations in the Kuroshio Extension region
Yoshi N. Sasaki, Shoshiro Minobe

3. 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, Yoshihiro Tachibana, Hisashi Nakamura

4. Heat and salt budgets of the mixed layer around the Subarctic Front of the North Pacific Ocean
Vincent Faure, Yoshimi Kawai

5. 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

6. Early summertime interannual variability in surface and subsurface temperature in the North Pacific
Shigeki Hosoda, Masami Nonaka, Yoshikazu Sasai, Hideharu Sasaki

7. Local wind effect on the Kuroshio path state off the southeastern coast of Kyushu
Hirohiko Nakamura, Riku Hiranaka, Daisuke Ambe, Tsutomu Saito

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

9. 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

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