Ocean front effects on development and maintenance of the synoptic low pressure and its feedback to the ocean surface layers.

研究了日本南部黑潮-黑潮延伸区海表温度锋区对海洋大气的影响。在锋面热通量强的区域上空发现了一个楔形的低海平面气压。在数值实验中，在规定海温的强迫下，带锋面的模式成功地再现了观测到的特征。相比之下，平滑海表温度强迫模型无法再现特征。这些观测和数值结果表明，海洋释放的热量使低层大气升温，然后在该区域形成水静力调整的SLP最小值。

Ocean-to-atmosphere effects are examined in the sea surface temperature (SST) frontal region along Kuroshio-Kuroshio Extension south of Japan. A wedge-shaped low sea level pressure (SLP) is found over the region with intense surface heat fluxes along the front. In the numerical experiments, the model forced by the prescribed SST with the front successfully reproduced the observed features. By contrast, the model forced by the smoothed SST failed to reproduce the features. These observational and numerical results show that the heat release from the ocean warms up the lower atmosphere and then form SLP minimum over that region as the hydrostatic adjustments.