Typhoon-Ocean Interaction: The Ocean Response to Typhoons and Its Feedback to Typhoon Intensity - Synergy of Observations and Model Simulations
Abstract
The lack of in situ measurement over the ocean has always been a major roadblock limiting our progress in understanding the interaction between TC and ocean more thoroughly and quantitatively. With the success of THOREPX-PARC (T-PARC) (Wu et al. 2012a, b), the field program Impact of Typhoons on the Ocean in the Pacific (ITOP) (D Asaro et al. 2013) was conducted in the summer of 2010. By closely coordinating with the DOTSTAR and TCS-10 programs, ITOP took special observations from dropwindsondes, floats, drifters deployed by airplanes and vessels, moorings and gliders, to measure the response of the upper ocean to typhoons. The experiment was conducted in simple, open ocean conditions and in the more complex conditions caused by ocean eddies, the Kuroshio and complex, shallow bathymetry. The measurements taken include surface waves, air-sea fluxes and the temperature, salinity and velocity structure of the upper ocean. These observations are used to understand key upper ocean processes, test upper ocean models, test key parameterizations of upper ocean physics used in these models and study feedback from the ocean to typhoon intensity.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 30, 2013
- Accession Number
- ADA598646
Entities
People
- Chun-Chieh Wu
Organizations
- National Taiwan University