The climate variability of the Kuroshio-Oyashio Extension (KOE) and North Pacific Transition Zone (NPTZ) exerts a strong control on marine populations that are sensitive to the strong productivity gradients between the subtropical and subpolar recirculation gyres. In observations, the relationship ...
The findings of these studies showed that millennial-scale changes in a variety of palaeoceanographic records from the CbCS likely reflect fluctuations in the Kuroshio–Oyashio boundary around the Boso peninsula and that these fluctuations may be linked to global teleconnection patterns. Radiolarians, a...
In the Kuroshio–Oyashio Extension region in the western North Pacific, defined here as the region between the Kuroshio Extension and the extension (or return flow) of the Oyashio Current, an increase in the surface Chl resulting from a phytoplankton bloom is generally observed in spring, ...
A set of numerical simulations is used to investigate the Pacific Ocean circulation north of 20°S, with emphasis on the Kuroshio/Oyashio current system. The primitive equation models used for these simulations have a free surface and realistic geometry that includes the deep marginal seas, such ...
By conducting regional atmospheric model experiments, we show that, in the Kuroshio–Oyashio Confluence region, wintertime warm eddies heat the marine atmospheric boundary layer (MABL), and accelerate westerly winds in the near-surface atmosphere via the vertical mixing effect, leading to wind ...
A. C.Seasonal cycle and inter-annual variability of the Kuroshio/Oyashio current system using multi-channel sea surface temperature and altimetry sea level data. Advances in Space Research . 2000Naeije MC, Ambrosius BAC (2000) Seasonal cycle and inter-annual variability of the Kuroshio/Oyashio ...
This study investigates the seasonal variations of the mixed‐layer salinity anomalies (MLSAs) under the decadal variability of the Kuroshio Extension (KE) in the Kuroshio‐Oyashio Confluence Region (KOCR: 35–40°N, 140–150°E). Our analysis reveals that the seasonal variation trend of the ...
The turbulent heat fluxes have large temporal variance in the Kuroshio-Oyashio Confluence (KOC) region [142掳155掳E, 35掳40掳N]. The turbulent heat fluxes in the KOC region also show a remarkable positive trend, the value of which in the recent decade increases by up to 20% from the ...
Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Responses to Recent Freshwater Flux Changes over the Kuroshio-Oyashio Extension RegionZhang, L.-P, L.-X. Wu, and J.-X. ZhangJournal of Climate, in pressObservations have indicated a trend of freshwater loss in the global western boundary current extension regions over ...
The sensitivity of the North Pacific storm track to midlatitude oceanic frontal strength within the Kuroshio/Oyashio Extensions is investigated by applying artificially changed meridional sea surface temperature (SST) gradients in the Weather Research Forecasting model version 3.4. The result of sensitivity...