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Using monthly reanalysis data of the National Center for Environmental Research/National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCEP/NCAR) and Objectively Analyzed Air-Sea Heat Flux (OAFlux) gathered during the winter, singular vector decomposition (SVD) analysis was conducted to reveal the coupled mode between the Kuroshio marine heating anomaly and the geopotential height at 500 hPa (Z500) over the North Pacific. The first SVD mode showed that when the northern Kuroshio marine heating anomaly was positive, the Z500 in the central and western sections of the North Pacific was anomalously low. By composing the meteorological field anomalies in the positive (or negative) years, it has been revealed that while the Aleutian Low deepens (or shallows), the northwesterly wind overlying the Kuroshio strengthens (or weakens) and induces the near-surface air to be cool (or warm). Furthermore, this increases (or decreases) the upward heat flux anomaly and cools (or warms) the sea surface temperature (SST) accordingly. In the vicinity of Kuroshio and its downstream region, the vertical structure of the air temperature along the latitude is baroclinic; however, the geopotential height is equivalently barotropic, which presents a cool trough (or warm ridge) spatial structure. The divergent wind and vertical velocities are introduced to show the anomalous zonal circulation cell. These are characterized by the rising (or descending) air in the central North Pacific, which flows westward and eastward toward the upper troposphere, descends (or rises) in the Kuroshio and in the western section of North America, and then strengthens (or weakens) the mid-latitude zonal cell (MZC).