Abstract: Tropical instability waves and tropical instability vortices (TIVs) exert major controls on ocean dynamics, thermodynamics, and biology on intraseasonal to seasonal time scales. To understand the fundamental mechanisms at ...

Abstract: A numerical simulation is used to investigate the mixed layer heat balance of the tropical Pacific Ocean including the equatorial cold tongue and the region of vortices associated with tropical instability waves (TIWs). ...

Abstract: ropical cyclones drive intense ocean vertical mixing that explains most of the surface cooling observed in their wake (the ?cold wake?). In this paper, the authors investigate the influence of cyclonic rainfall on the cold ...

Abstract: The Weather Research and Forecast model at ?° resolution is used to simulate the statistics of tropical cyclone (TC) activity in the present climate of the South Pacific. In addition to the large-scale conditions, the model ...