Unexpected limitation of tropical cyclone genesis by subsurface tropical central-north Pacific during El Niño

Wind stress curl anomalies break the ocean dynamical bond between sea surface and subsurface, constraining tropical cyclone genesis in the tropical central-north Pacific, leading to comparable number of TC for El Niño and La Niña in the western North Pacific.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cong Gao, Lei Zhou, Chunzai Wang, I.-I. Lin, Raghu Murtugudde
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35530-9