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@article{Bruneau:2018:10.1038/s41598-017-19012-3,
author = {Bruneau, N and Toumi, R and Wang, S},
doi = {10.1038/s41598-017-19012-3},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
title = {Impact of wave whitecapping on land falling tropical cyclones},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-19012-3},
volume = {8},
year = {2018}
}
TY - JOUR
AB - Predicting tropical cyclone structure and evolution remains challenging. Particularly, the surface wave interactions with thecontinental shelf and their impact on tropical cyclones have received very little attention. Through a series of state-of-the-arthigh-resolution, fully-coupled ocean-wave and atmosphere-ocean-wave experiments, we show here, for the first time, thatin presence of continental shelf waves can cause substantial cooling of the sea surface. Through whitecapping there is atransfer of momentum from the surface which drives deeper vertical mixing. It is the waves and not just the wind which becomethe major driver of stratified coastal ocean ahead-of-cyclone cooling. In the fully-coupled atmosphere-ocean-wave model anegative feedback is found. The maximum wind speed is weaker and the damaging footprint area of hurricane-force winds isreduced by up to 50% due to the strong wave induced ocean cooling ahead. Including wave-ocean coupling is important toimprove land falling tropical cyclone intensity predictions for the highly populated and vulnerable coasts.
AU - Bruneau,N
AU - Toumi,R
AU - Wang,S
DO - 10.1038/s41598-017-19012-3
PY - 2018///
SN - 2045-2322
TI - Impact of wave whitecapping on land falling tropical cyclones
T2 - Scientific Reports
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-19012-3
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/55462
VL - 8
ER -