Communications Earth & Environment (Aug 2022)

Targeted artificial ocean cooling to weaken tropical cyclones would be futile

  • James Hlywiak,
  • David S. Nolan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00519-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Weakening tropical cyclones artificially through cooling the surface ocean would require massive regions of ocean to be cooled for a modest effect, suggest simulations with a realistic mesoscale ocean-atmosphere model.