Two reviewers provide us with valuable advice and comments. The
authors also received considerable assistance from Dr. Satoshi
Sakai, the editor, with the preparation of text, figures, and tables
in the html environment. In addition, the authors also wish to
acknowledge the assistance of phys_admin members of the Graduate
School of Environmental Science , Hokkaido University, who provided
us with a great deal of cooperation and advice on software
installation and setup. The authors would like to express their deep
appreciation to the above-mentioned individuals. The numerical
simulations is conducted on the NEC SX-3 supercomputer of the Center
for Global Environmental Research of the National Institute for
Environmental Studies. The figures in the present work are drawn
with the use of 1) the GFD-DENNOU club library, which is developed
under the leadership of Assistant Professors Masato Shiotani and
Satoshi Sakai and 2) gtool3, the grid data analysis tool developed
by Dr. Atsushi Numaguti. The present article is prepared with the
following conversion filters:
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