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    Observations of the cold wake of Typhoon Fanapi (2010)

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    2013-01-19
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    Mrvaljevic, Rosalinda K.  Concept link
    Black, Peter G.  Concept link
    Centurioni, Luca R.  Concept link
    Chang, Ya-Ting  Concept link
    D'Asaro, Eric A.  Concept link
    Jayne, Steven R.  Concept link
    Lee, Craig M.  Concept link
    Lien, Ren-Chieh  Concept link
    Lin, I.-I.  Concept link
    Morzel, Jan  Concept link
    Niiler, Pearn P.  Concept link
    Rainville, Luc  Concept link
    Sanford, Thomas B.  Concept link
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    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/6830
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    https://doi.org/10.1029/2012GL054282
    DOI
    10.1029/2012GL054282
    Keyword
     Cold wake; Tropical cyclone; Fossilized mixed layer; Mesoscale stirring; Typhoon 
    Abstract
    Several tens of thousands of temperature profiles are used to investigate the thermal evolution of the cold wake of Typhoon Fanapi, 2010. Typhoon Fanapi formed a cold wake in the Western North Pacific Ocean on 18 September characterized by a mixed layer that was >2.5 °C cooler than the surrounding water, and extending to >80 m, twice as deep as the preexisting mixed layer. The initial cold wake became capped after 4 days as a warm, thin surface layer formed. The thickness of the capped wake, defined as the 26 °C–27 °C layer, decreased, approaching the background thickness of this layer with an e-folding time of 23 days, almost twice the e-folding lifetime of the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) cold wake (12 days). The wake was advected several hundreds of kilometers from the storm track by a preexisting mesoscale eddy. The observations reveal new intricacies of cold wake evolution and demonstrate the challenges of describing the thermal structure of the upper ocean using sea surface information alone.
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    Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2013. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Geophysical Research Letters 40 (2013): 316–321, doi:10.1029/2012GL054282.
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    Geophysical Research Letters 40 (2013): 316–321
     

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