Did naval war generated the cold winter 1944/45 in Japan? |
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Since December 1941 the United States had been at war with Japan. It did take some time to set up a huge naval force, but in 1944 thousands of ships and much more air planes operated in the Western North Pacific and came closer and closer to Japan’s shores. Did that resulted in a climatic effect? Presumably yes. All coastal station recorded the coldest winter on record. In Kyoto, a city situated in the Yamashiro Basin that is surrounded on three sides by mountains known as Higashiyama, Kitayama and Nishiyama, with a height just above 1000 meters above sea level, had had the coldest for 40 years. The ocean in the east of Japan is a complex matter, a complex sea current system, with a very deep water basin that has very low mean water temperature, only covered by a very thin warmer water layer. Huge naval activities and fighting can quickly effect the common structure of the sea, and result in tremendous exchanges of water masses over several water layers. Did that has caused the cold winter in Japan? |
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Chapter: 4_12 |
Book Page: 227c |
File: 988_Japan_WinterT |
Image: 2009/www.seaclimate.com |
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