North Pacific subtropical sea surface temperature frontogenesis and its connection with the atmosphere above

Zhang, Leying; Xu, Haiming; Ma, Jing; Shi, Ning; Deng, Jiechun

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-10-261-2019

Articles | Volume 10, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-10-261-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-10-261-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 2

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24 Apr 2019

Research article |

| 24 Apr 2019

North Pacific subtropical sea surface temperature frontogenesis and its connection with the atmosphere above

Leying Zhang, Haiming Xu, Jing Ma, Ning Shi, and Jiechun Deng

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Final revised paper (published on 24 Apr 2019)
Preprint (discussion started on 17 Jul 2018)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review of "North Pacific subtropical sea surface temperature frontogenesis and its connection with the atmosphere above"', Anonymous Referee #1, 13 Aug 2018
- AC1: 'Response to reviewer1', Leying Zhang, 19 Dec 2018
RC2: 'Minor revision', Anonymous Referee #2, 21 Nov 2018
- AC2: 'Response to reviewer2', Leying Zhang, 19 Dec 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (23 Jan 2019) by Anders Levermann

AR by Leying Zhang on behalf of the Authors (01 Feb 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (01 Apr 2019) by Anders Levermann

AR by Leying Zhang on behalf of the Authors (06 Apr 2019)

Short summary

Net heat flux dominates the frontogenesis of the NPSTF from October to December, while oceanic meridional temperature advection contributes equally as much or even more net heat flux in January and February. The atmosphere is critical to frontogenesis through net heat flux and the Aleutian low, the latter of which benefits meridional temperature advection.