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The influence of air-sea interaction on the development and motion of a tropical cyclone: Numerical experiments with a triply nested model

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Tropical cyclone (TC)—ocena feedbacks are studied using a coupled tropical cyclone-ocean model consisting of an eightlayer triply-nested movable grid model of a TC and a three-layer primitive equation ocean model. The numerical results indicate that the TC-ocean interaction influences intensities, structures, and the trajectories of tropical cyclones. Two possible mechanisms, barotropic and baroclinic, influencing TC tracks under TC-ocean interaction are suggested. The barotropic mechanism is related to the changes of the vertically averaged TC structure, induced by the TC-ocean coupling. The baroclinic mechanism is related to the asymmetry of the condensation heating within the TC caused by the asymmetry of heat and moisture fluxes at the sea surface. This asymmetry arises due to the asymmetry in sea surface cooling relative to the storm center. The experiments indicate that the influence of TC-ocean interaction on the TC tracks is the greatest for the case of a zero background flow. In the case of a non-zero background flow the sensitivity of storm tracks to the coupling with the ocean decreases. It is found that the influence of the ocean coupling on the TC track is quite sensitive to the method of convective heating parameterization in the TC model. The TC-ocean interaction also results in a change of the amount and spatial distribution of precipitation.

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  1. A. I. Falkovich

    Present address: The Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat. Ram, 91904, Jerusalem, Israel

  2. A. P. Khain

    Present address: Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, 02882, Narragansett, Rhode Island, USA

  3. I. Ginis

    Present address: Development Division, National Meteorological Center, Washington D.C., USA

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Falkovich, A.I., Khain, A.P. & Ginis, I. The influence of air-sea interaction on the development and motion of a tropical cyclone: Numerical experiments with a triply nested model. Meteorl. Atmos. Phys. 55, 167–184 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01029825

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