期刊
BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY
卷 103, 期 11, 页码 E2604-E2627出版社
AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0131.1
关键词
Mixing; Wind waves; Atmosphere-ocean interaction; Hurricanes; typhoons; Thermodynamics; Ocean models
资金
- Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Ministry of Education [2021R1A2C1005287]
- Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, South Korea [20210607, 20220566]
Despite having less available ocean heat content, eastern North Pacific hurricanes intensify faster and more efficiently than western North Pacific typhoons. This is attributed to their smaller size, lower latitude positioning, and favorable atmospheric conditions such as lower vertical wind shear, colder troposphere, and drier boundary layer.
Tropical cyclones operate as heat engines, deriving energy from the thermodynamic disequilibrium between ocean surfaces and atmosphere. Available energy for the cyclones comes primarily from upper-ocean heat content. Here, we show that eastern North Pacific hurricanes reach a given intensity 15% faster on average than western North Pacific typhoons despite having half the available ocean heat content. Eastern North Pacific hurricanes also intensify on average 16% more with a given ocean energy (i.e., air-sea enthalpy flux) than western North Pacific typhoons. As efficient intensifiers, eastern Pacific hurricanes remain small during their intensification period, tend to stay at lower latitudes, and are affected by relatively lower vertical wind shear, a colder troposphere, and a drier boundary layer. Despite a shallower warm upper-ocean layer in the eastern North Pacific, average hurricane-induced sea surface cooling there is only slightly larger than in the western North Pacific due to the opposing influences of stronger density stratification, smaller size, and related wave-interaction effects. In contrast, western North Pacific typhoons encounter a more favorable oceanic environment for development, but several factors cause typhoons to greatly increase their size during intensification, resulting in a slow and inefficient intensification process. These findings on tropical cyclones' basin-dependent characteristics contribute toward a better understanding of TC intensification.
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