scholarly journals Relation between the Japan-Sea coastal heavy snowfall and upper winds.

1987 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masashi Nagata
Keyword(s):  
Japan Sea ◽  
Heavy Snowfall ◽  
The Japan Sea

scholarly journals Explosively Developing Cyclone Activity in Relation to Heavy Snowfall on the Japan Sea Side of Central Japan

2012 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshitaka YAMASHITA ◽  
Ryuichi KAWAMURA ◽  
Satoshi IIZUKA ◽  
Hiroaki HATSUSHIKA
Keyword(s):  
Japan Sea ◽  
Heavy Snowfall ◽  
Cyclone Activity ◽  
Central Japan ◽  
The Japan Sea

scholarly journals Climatic response of snow depth to recent warmer winter seasons in heavy-snowfall areas in Japan

2004 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 299-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masaaki Ishizaka
Keyword(s):  
Snow Depth ◽  
Japan Sea ◽  
Japan Meteorological Agency ◽  
Temperate Climate ◽  
The Sea Of Japan ◽  
Heavy Snowfall ◽  
Maximum Increase ◽  
Maximum Snow Depth ◽  
The Japan Sea ◽  
Meteorological Observations

AbstractIn heavy-snowfall areas facing the Sea of Japan, winter seasons with lower volumes of snow occurred from 1986/87 to 1999/2000. In this paper, the changes induced by these warmer winters in snowy areas in Japan are investigated using two datasets. One set was normalized for the period 1971–2000 from manned surface meteorological observations by the Japan Meteorological Agency, and the other set was for 1961– 90. Winter climatic monthly values for the first dataset were thought to be affected by the warmer winter seasons since almost half the relevant period coincides with them. By comparing each monthly climatic value in both datasets, the following results were obtained: (1) At each meteorological observation site the bimonthly average temperature fromJanuary to February increased and the amounts of increase were about 0.4°C on average. (2) The bimonthly maximum snow depth for the same period increased at a number of sites, but usually by only a few centimeters, the maximum increase being 0.05 m. (3) In contrast, the decreases in snow depth in heavy-snowfall areas facing the Japan Sea, which belong to a temperate climate zone, were large, ranging from about 0.05 to 0.22 m in climatic bimonthly maximum snow depth during January and February. The last result shows that snow covers in such warm snowy areas are very sensitive to climatic changes. An attempt is also made in this paper to estimate the amounts of decrease in snow depth from the increases in air temperature and the decreases in precipitation amounts.

Some Aspects of Japan Sea Trade in the Tokugawa Period

1964 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 405-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert G. Flershem
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Japan Sea ◽  
Permanent Residence ◽  
Tokugawa Period ◽  
The Japan Sea

It is reasonable to assume that Kaga han, in view of its size, large rice and other exports, and central coastal location, provided the lion's share of ships and shipowners operating in the Japan Sea during the two centuries before Perry. Villagers were going from Noto to North Honshu and Hokkaido both for temporary occupation and for permanent residence in the mid-seventeenth century and diereafter; and some of these emigrants became useful Kaga han trade agents. Moreover, transport of rice and salt respectively to Tsuruga and Echigo from Noto villages early in the Tokugawa period can be documented. Kaga han needed an all-water route to Osaka because of the high cost of transshipping rice by land from Tsuruga to Osaka. This may have been the main reason for the development in the latter part of the seventeenth century of nishi mawari, the route for ships going from the Japan Sea through the Inland Sea.

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