Local atmospheric response to warm mesoscale ocean eddies in the Kuroshio-Oyashio Confluence region.

ABSTRACT: In the extratropical regions, surface winds enhance upward heat release from the ocean to atmosphere, resulting in cold surface ocean: surface ocean temperature is negatively correlated with upward heat flux. However, in the western boundary currents and eddy-rich regions, the warmer surface waters compared to surrounding waters enhance upward heat release-a positive correlation between upward heat release and surface ocean temperature, implying that the ocean drives the atmosphere. The atmospheric response to warm mesoscale ocean eddies with a horizontal extent of a few hundred kilometers remains unclear because of a lack of observations. By conducting regional atmospheric model experiments, we show that, in the Kuroshio-Oyashio Confluence region, wintertime warm eddies heat the marine at

SUBMITTER: Sugimoto S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5605681 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature