Abstract: ropical cyclones (TCs) typically produce intense oceanic upwelling underneath the storm?s center and weaker and broader downwelling outside upwelled regions. However, several cases of predominantly downwelling responses ...

Abstract: During favorable atmospheric conditions, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita deepened to category 5 over the Loop Current?s (LC) bulge associated with an amplifying warm core eddy. Both hurricanes subsequently weakened to category ...

Abstract: Tropical cyclones (TCs) Katrina and Rita moved as major hurricanes over energetic geostrophic ocean features in the Gulf of Mexico. Increased and reduced oceanic mixed layer (OML) cooling was measured following the passage ...

Abstract: n this second part of a two-part study, details of the upper-ocean response within an idealized baroclinic current to a translating tropical cyclone are examined in a series of nonlinear, reduced-gravity numerical simulations. ...

Abstract: he ocean mixed layer response to a tropical cyclone within and immediately adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current is examined. In the first of a two-part study, a comprehensive set of temperature, salinity, and current ...

Abstract: Recent evidence supports the premise that the subsurface ocean structure plays an important role in modulating air?sea fluxes during hurricane passage, which in turn, affects intensity change. Given the generally sparse ...

Abstract: Recent hurricane activity over the Gulf of Mexico basin has underscored the importance of the Loop Current (LC) and its deep, warm thermal structure on hurricane intensity. During Hurricanes Isidore and Lili in 2002, ...

Abstract: Free surface effects induced by an idealized hurricane based on observed air?sea variables in Hurricane Frederic are revisited to examine the barotropic and baroclinic response. Over five inertial periods comparisons between ...

Abstract: Hurricane Frederic passed with 80 to 130 km of the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office current meter arrays in water depths ranging from 100 to 470 m near the DeSoto Canyon region, and within 150 km of an Ocean Thermal Energy ...

Abstract: Oceanic mixed layer (ML) response to Hurricane Gilbert in the western Gulf of Mexico is investigated in this paper using the Miami Isopycnic Coordinate Ocean Model (MICOM). Three snapshots of oceanic observations indicated ...