Nature Communications (Mar 2016)

Stratified coastal ocean interactions with tropical cyclones

  • S. M. Glenn,
  • T. N. Miles,
  • G. N. Seroka,
  • Y. Xu,
  • R. K. Forney,
  • F. Yu,
  • H. Roarty,
  • O. Schofield,
  • J. Kohut

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10887
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

Read online

Accurate forecasts of hurricane intensity remain problematic. Here, using an ocean observing network to inform ocean and atmospheric model simulations, the authors show that consideration of ahead-of-eye cooling improves intensity forecasts.