Abstract:A series of high-resolution satellite data is used to investigate the sea-air interaction around the Kuroshio sea surface temperature (SST) front area over the East China Sea under different prevailing surface winds in spring. Results show that a significant positive correlation exists between the SST and the sea surface wind speed under three different kinds of prevailing surface wind, which presents the sea-air forcing. The responses of atmosphere to the SST front over the East China Sea under three different kinds of prevailing surface wind are obviously different. Under the northwest and southeast prevailing surface winds, the wind perpendicular to the SST front moves from the colder (warmer) flank to the warmer (colder) one, sea surface wind diverges (converges) over the SST front. Meanwhile, the weak influence of the SST front on the sea level pressure (SLP), precipitation and convection indicates that the atmospheric responses to the SST front are mainly confined in the atmospheric boundary layer. Under the northeast prevailing surface wind, the sea surface wind parallel to the SST front converges (diverges) over the warmer (colder) flank of the front, corresponding to the low (high) value of SLP anomalies. An obvious rainband extends along the Kuroshio current over the East China Sea. Whether in terms of the total precipitation, or the distribution of stratiform and convective precipitation frequency, SST has the most obvious effects on the occurrence of its above rainband under the northeast prevailing sea surface wind. It is also found that different physical mechanisms are responsible for the air-sea interaction over the SST front under different prevailing surface winds. The SLP adjustment mechanism works when the northeast surface wind parallel to the SST front was prevailing, while the vertical mixing mechanism became the key factor when the northwest surface wind vertical to the SST front was prevailing.