How ocean color can steer Pacific tropical cyclones
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...
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| author | Emanuel, Kerry Andrew Vecchi, Gabriel A. Anderson, Whit G. Hallberg, Robert Gnanadesikan, Anand, 1967- |
| author2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences |
| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Emanuel, Kerry Andrew Vecchi, Gabriel A. Anderson, Whit G. Hallberg, Robert Gnanadesikan, Anand, 1967- |
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| description | 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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| spelling | mit-1721.1/644362024-05-15T02:19:22Z How ocean color can steer Pacific tropical cyclones Emanuel, Kerry Andrew Vecchi, Gabriel A. Anderson, Whit G. Hallberg, Robert Gnanadesikan, Anand, 1967- Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Emanuel, Kerry Andrew Emanuel, Kerry Andrew 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. National Science Foundation (U.S.) (grant NNX07AL801G) Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (U.S.) 2011-06-15T14:33:54Z 2011-06-15T14:33:54Z 2010-09 2010-07 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/64436 Gnanadesikan, A., K. Emanuel, G. A. Vecchi, W. G. Anderson, and R. Hallberg (2010), "How ocean color can steer Pacific tropical cyclones.", Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L18802. ©2010 American Geophysical Union. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2066-2082 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2010gl044514 Geophysical Research Letters Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf American Geophysical Union MIT web domain |
| spellingShingle | Emanuel, Kerry Andrew Vecchi, Gabriel A. Anderson, Whit G. Hallberg, Robert Gnanadesikan, Anand, 1967- How ocean color can steer Pacific tropical cyclones |
| title | How ocean color can steer Pacific tropical cyclones |
| title_full | How ocean color can steer Pacific tropical cyclones |
| title_fullStr | How ocean color can steer Pacific tropical cyclones |
| title_full_unstemmed | How ocean color can steer Pacific tropical cyclones |
| title_short | How ocean color can steer Pacific tropical cyclones |
| title_sort | how ocean color can steer pacific tropical cyclones |
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