Pacific western boundary currents and their roles in climate

D Hu, L Wu, W Cai, AS Gupta, A Ganachaud, B Qiu… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Pacific Ocean western boundary currents and the interlinked equatorial Pacific circulation
system were among the first currents of these types to be explored by pioneering …

Role of the Gulf Stream and Kuroshio–Oyashio systems in large-scale atmosphere–ocean interaction: A review

YO Kwon, MA Alexander, NA Bond… - Journal of …, 2010 - journals.ametsoc.org
Ocean–atmosphere interaction over the Northern Hemisphere western boundary current
(WBC) regions (ie, the Gulf Stream, Kuroshio, Oyashio, and their extensions) is reviewed …

Air–sea interaction over ocean fronts and eddies

RJ Small, SP deSzoeke, SP **e, L O'neill, H Seo… - … of Atmospheres and …, 2008 - Elsevier
Air–sea interaction at ocean fronts and eddies exhibits positive correlation between sea
surface temperature (SST), wind speed, and heat fluxes out of the ocean, indicating that the …

Coupled ocean-atmosphere interaction at oceanic mesoscales

DB Chelton, SP **e - Oceanography, 2010 - JSTOR
Satellite observations have revealed a remarkably strong positive correlation between sea
surface temperature (SST) and surface winds on oceanic mesoscales of 10–1000 km …

Western boundary currents and frontal air–sea interaction: Gulf Stream and Kuroshio Extension

KA Kelly, RJ Small, RM Samelson, B Qiu… - Journal of …, 2010 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract In the Northern Hemisphere midlatitude western boundary current (WBC) systems
there is a complex interaction between dynamics and thermodynamics and between …

Decadal variability of the Kuroshio Extension: Observations and an eddy-resolving model hindcast

B Taguchi, SP **e, N Schneider, M Nonaka… - Journal of …, 2007 - journals.ametsoc.org
Low-frequency variability of the Kuroshio Extension (KE) is studied using observations and a
multidecadal (1950–2003) hindcast by a high-resolution (0.1°), eddy-resolving, global …

On the summertime planetary boundary layer with different thermodynamic stability in China: A radiosonde perspective

W Zhang, J Guo, Y Miao, H Liu, Y Song… - Journal of …, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
Strongly influenced by thermodynamic stability, the planetary boundary layer (PBL) is key to
the exchange of heat, momentum, and moisture between the ground surface and free …

Ocean frontal effects on the vertical development of clouds over the western North Pacific: In situ and satellite observations

H Tokinaga, Y Tanimoto, SP **e, T Sampe… - Journal of …, 2009 - journals.ametsoc.org
A suite of shipboard and satellite observations are analyzed and synthesized to investigate
the three-dimensional structure of clouds and influences from sea surface temperature fronts …

Influences of the Kuroshio/Oyashio Extensions on air–sea heat exchanges and storm-track activity as revealed in regional atmospheric model simulations for the 2003 …

B Taguchi, H Nakamura, M Nonaka… - Journal of Climate, 2009 - journals.ametsoc.org
Influences of oceanic fronts in the Kuroshio and Oyashio Extension (KOE) region on the
overlying atmosphere are investigated by comparing a pair of atmospheric regional model …

The effects of SST-induced surface wind speed and direction gradients on midlatitude surface vorticity and divergence

LW O'Neill, DB Chelton, SK Esbensen - Journal of Climate, 2010 - journals.ametsoc.org
The effects of surface wind speed and direction gradients on midlatitude surface vorticity and
divergence fields associated with mesoscale sea surface temperature (SST) variability …