Cold wake of Hurricane Frances

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Aug 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007georl..3415609d&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 34, Issue 15, CiteID L15609

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Atmospheric Processes: Ocean/Atmosphere Interactions (0312, 4504), Oceanography: Physical: Air/Sea Interactions (0312, 3339), Oceanography: Physical: Internal And Inertial Waves, Oceanography: Physical: Turbulence, Diffusion, And Mixing Processes (4490), Oceanography: Physical: Upper Ocean And Mixed Layer Processes

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An array of instruments air-deployed ahead of Hurricane Frances measured the three-dimensional, time dependent response of the ocean to this strong (60 ms-1) storm. Sea surface temperature cooled by up to 2.2°C with the greatest cooling occurring in a 50-km-wide band centered 60-85 km to the right of the track. The cooling was almost entirely due to vertical mixing, not air-sea heat fluxes. Currents of up to 1.6 ms-1 and thermocline displacements of up to 50 m dispersed as near-inertial internal waves. The heat in excess of 26°C, decreased behind the storm due primarily to horizontal advection of heat away from the storm track, with a small contribution from mixing across the 26°C isotherm. SST cooling under the storm core (0.4°C) produced a 16% decrease in air-sea heat flux implying an approximately 5 ms-1 reduction in peak winds

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