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Tropical sea surface temperature, vertical wind shear, and hurricane development.

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Latif, M., Keenlyside, N., Bader, J.·2007·Geophysical Research Letters

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The anomalously strong hurricane activity in the Atlantic sector during the recent years led to a controversy about the impact of global warming on hurricane activity in the Atlantic sector. Here we show that the temperature difference between the tropical North Atlantic and the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans (Indo‐Pacific) is a key parameter in controlling the vertical wind shear over the Atlantic, an important quantity for hurricane activity. The stronger warming of the tropical North Atlantic relative to that of the Indo‐Pacific during the most recent years drove reduced vertical wind shear over the Atlantic and is thus responsible for the strong hurricane activity observed. In 2006, however, the temperature difference between the tropical North Atlantic and the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans is much reduced, which explains the relatively weak hurricane season.

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Crossref · 10.1029/2006gl027969

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  • There is strong evidence linking decadal-multidecadal tropical Atlantic SST variability to hurricane activity, but the drivers of this SST variability are not well known.

    “There is also strong evidence linking decadal-multidecadal tropical Atlantic SST variability to hurricane activity (Goldenberg et al., 2001;Latif et al., 2007;Balaguru et al., 2018), but the drivers of this SST variability are not well known (Yang, 1999;Chang et al., 2000;Tanimoto and Xie, 2002;Evan et al., 2011;Booth et al., 2012;Clement et al., 2015).”

    From The tropical atlantic observing system (2019) · cites this paper as Latif et al., 2007

  • Climate models predict increases in wind shear in some portions of the Atlantic hurricane development region, which would act to decrease overall Atlantic storm activity.

    “Climate models predict increases in wind shear in some portions of the Atlantic hurricane development region (Latif et al., 2007;Vecchi and Soden, 2007), which would, however, act to decrease overall Atlantic storm activity.”

    From The tropical atlantic observing system (2019) · cites this paper as Latif et al., 2007

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Authors
Latif, M., Keenlyside, N., & Bader, J.
Affiliations
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (DE)
Venue
Geophysical Research Letters
Published
2007-01
Volume
34
Issue
1
ISSN
  • 0094-8276 (ISSN-L)
  • 1944-8007
OpenAlex
W1999546511
Cited by
139
References
19
Citations by year
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FWCI
8.21
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Geophysical Research Letters (publishedVersion)
  • Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR) (acceptedVersion, other-oa)
  • MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Climate variability and models
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Keywords
tropical sea surface temperature, vertical wind shear, global warming, North Atlantic warming, tropical ocean warming

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