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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
卷 44, 期 4, 页码 1947-1955出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL072023
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- NSF [AGS-1405272]
- NOAA [NA140AR4310277]
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
- National Science Foundation [OCI-0725070, ACI-1238993]
- state of Illinois. Blue Waters is a joint effort of the University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign
Tropical cyclones (TCs) tend to cool sea surface temperature (SST) via enhanced vertical mixing and evaporative fluxes. This cooling is substantially reduced in the subtropics, especially in the northeastern Pacific where the occurrence of TCs can warm the ocean surface. Here we investigate the cause of this anomalous warming by analyzing the local oceanic features and TC-induced anomalies of SST, surface fluxes, and cloud fraction using satellite and in situ data. We find that TCs tend to suppress low clouds at the margins of the tropical ocean warm pool, enhancing shortwave radiative surface fluxes within the first week following storm passage, which, combined with spatial variations in ocean thermal structure, can produce a similar to 1 degrees C near-surface warming in the northeastern Pacific. These findings, supported by high-resolution Earth system model simulations, point to potential connections between TCs, ocean temperature, and low cloud distributions that can influence tropical surface heat budgets.
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