Fig. 8From: Saildrone-observed atmospheric boundary layer response to winter mesoscale warm spot along the Kuroshio south of JapanSpatial variation components in a latent and b sensible heat fluxes on track A due to wind speed, (∂F/∂UW)ΔUW in Eq. (1) (orange line), sea surface temperature (SST) (∂F/∂TS)ΔTS (magenta line), air temperature (∂F/∂TA)ΔTA (green line), and specific humidity (∂F/∂q)Δq (cyan line). Values were averaged within intervals of approximately 2 km. Gray arrows are the same as the red arrows in Fig. 7. In b, sensible heat flux variations due to specific humidity variations are not plotted because sensible heat flux is independent of specific humidityBack to article page