A Note on the Modification of Air Masses over the Seas Adjacent to Japan

Abstract

  The modification of air masses over the seas adjacent to Japan based on the distribution and the variation of air temperature (θ₀) minus sea temperature (θ) are studied, and by means of several maps of (θ₀-θ) the areas of cyclogenesis or typhoon-genesis and areas of sea-fog formation, and convection clouds on the seas are discussed, in relation to their mechanisms of development.