Upper ocean response to Hurricane Gonzalo 2014: salinity effects revealed by targeted and sustained underwater glider observations.
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During October 2014, Hurricane Gonzalo traveled within 85 km from the location of an underwater glider situated north of Puerto Rico. Observations collected before, during, and after the passage of this hurricane were analyzed to improve our understanding of the upper ocean response to hurricane winds. The main finding in this study is that salinity potentially played an important role on changes observed in the upper ocean; a near‐surface barrier layer likely suppressed the hurricane‐induced upper ocean cooling, leading to smaller than expected temperature changes. Poststorm observations also revealed a partial recovery of the ocean to prestorm conditions 11 days after the hurricane. Comparison with a coupled ocean‐atmosphere hurricane model indicates that model‐observations discrepancies are largely linked to salinity effects described. Results presented in this study emphasize the value of underwater glider observations for improving our knowledge of how the ocean responds to tropical cyclone winds and for tropical cyclone intensification studies and forecasts.
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In the northwestern tropical Atlantic, the Amazon-Orinoco plume increases salinity stratification, limiting hurricane-induced SST cooling.
“This is especially true in the northwestern tropical Atlantic, where the Amazon-Orinoco plume increases salinity stratification, limiting hurricane-induced SST cooling (Figure 5; Balaguru et al., 2012;Grodsky et al., 2012b;Domingues et al., 2015).”
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- Authors
- Domingues, R., Goni, G., Bringas, F., Lee, S., Kim, H., Halliwell, G., Dong, J., Morell, J., & Pomales, L.
- Affiliations
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US)
- Caribbean Coastal Ocean Observing System (PR)
- University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez Mayaguez Puerto Rico
- Corresponding author
- Domingues, Ricardo
- Venue
- Geophysical Research Letters
- Publisher
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Published
- 2015-09-04
- Volume
- 42
- Issue
- 17
- Pages
- 7131-7138
- ISSN
- 0094-8276 (ISSN-L)
- 1944-8007
- OpenAlex
- W2112037160
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- FWCI
- 4.72
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Geophysical Research Letters (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NA14OAR4830103)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Oceanography › Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Oceanography › Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
- Keywords
- tropical cyclones, upper ocean response, salinity effects, underwater gliders, coupled ocean-atmosphere model, tropical cyclone intensification, Puerto Rico
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