On the importance of midlatitude oceanic frontal zones for the mean state and dominant variability in the tropospheric circulation

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The JRA-55 Reanalysis: Representation of Atmospheric Circulation and Climate Variability (2016, background): “Transient eddies develop along SST fronts, where the main regions of the tracks of extra-tropical disturbances are formed (Nakamura et al. 2008, Sampe et al. 2010).”
Importance of Resolving Kuroshio Front and Eddy Influence in Simulating the North Pacific Storm Track (2017, background): “The strong baroclinic instability induced by the sharp temperature gradient along the Kuroshio Front is responsible for the generation of the storm track, and upon its generation the storm track tends to follow a southwest–northeast path (Chang et al. 2002; Nakamura et al. 2008).”
Coupled ocean-atmosphere interaction at oceanic mesoscales (2010, background): “The Gulf Stream is the warmest among major mid-latitude oceanic”
Storm track response to ocean fronts in a global high-resolution climate model (2014, background): “…investigation is needed to see if the response is linear to changes in SST gradient, and whether a threshold is required at a much heavier smoothing level than used here to reproduce the large changes in storm track quantities seen in the Nakamura et al. (2008) and Sampe et al. (2010) experiments.”