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Analyses show that anticyclonic eddies cause sea surface temperature, surface wind speed and precipitation rate to increase in all four subdomains, and vice versa. Through a further examination of the regional dependence of atmospheric responses to oceanic eddies, it is found that the strongest and the weakest surface wind speed responses (in winter and summer) are observed in the KE and AI region, respectively. For precipitation rate, seasonal variation of the atmospheric responses to oceanic eddies is strongest in winter and weakest in summer in the KE, CC and AI regions, but stronger in summer in the SF area. The reasons for such regional dependence and seasonality are the differences in the strength of SST anomalies, the vertical kinetic energy flux and atmospheric instability in the four subdomains.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs12071161","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,7]],"date-time":"2020-04-07T03:58:39Z","timestamp":1586231919000},"page":"1161","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["Regional Dependence of Atmospheric Responses to Oceanic Eddies in the North Pacific Ocean"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Jinlin","family":"Ji","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China"},{"name":"Second Institute of Oceanography, MNR, Hangzhou 310012, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jing","family":"Ma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters, University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Changming","family":"Dong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Oceanic Modeling and Observation Laboratory, Nanjing University of Information Science &amp; Technology, Nanjing 210044, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"John","family":"Chiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geography, University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-4740, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Dake","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Second Institute of Oceanography, MNR, Hangzhou 310012, China"},{"name":"School of Oceanography, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200000, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"167","DOI":"10.1016\/j.pocean.2011.01.002","article-title":"Global observations of nonlinear mesoscale eddies","volume":"91","author":"Chelton","year":"2011","journal-title":"Prog. 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