Observations of the cold wake of Typhoon Fanapi (2010)
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2013-01-19Author
Mrvaljevic, Rosalinda K.
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Black, Peter G.
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Centurioni, Luca R.
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Chang, Ya-Ting
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D'Asaro, Eric A.
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Jayne, Steven R.
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Lee, Craig M.
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Lien, Ren-Chieh
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Lin, I.-I.
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Morzel, Jan
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Niiler, Pearn P.
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Rainville, Luc
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Sanford, Thomas B.
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https://hdl.handle.net/1912/6830As published
https://doi.org/10.1029/2012GL054282DOI
10.1029/2012GL054282Abstract
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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