How ocean color can steer Pacific tropical cyclones

Details How ocean color can steer Pacific tropical cyclones How ocean color can steer Pacific tropical cyclones

Sep 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010georl..3718802g&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 37, Issue 18, CiteID L18802

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Atmospheric Processes: Ocean/Atmosphere Interactions (0312, 4504), Oceanography: Physical: Upper Ocean And Mixed Layer Processes, Atmospheric Processes: Global Climate Models (1626, 4928), Atmospheric Processes: Tropical Meteorology

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Because ocean color alters the absorption of sunlight, it can produce changes in sea surface temperatures with further impacts on atmospheric circulation. These changes can project onto fields previously recognized to alter the distribution of tropical cyclones. If the North Pacific subtropical gyre contained no absorbing and scattering materials, the result would be to reduce subtropical cyclone activity in the subtropical Northwest Pacific by 2/3, while concentrating cyclone tracks along the equator. Predicting tropical cyclone activity using coupled models may thus require consideration of the details of how heat moves into the upper thermocline as well as biogeochemical cycling.

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