TY - JOUR
T1 - Observed near-surface currents under four super typhoons
AU - Chang, Yu Chia
AU - Chu, Peter C.
AU - Centurioni, Luca R.
AU - Tseng, Ruo Shan
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was completed with grants from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan, Republic of China (MOST 102-2611-M-110-010-MY3 ) . Peter C. Chu was supported by the Naval Oceanographic Office ( N6230612PO00123 ). We are grateful for the comments of two anonymous reviewers.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2014/11/1
Y1 - 2014/11/1
N2 - The upper ocean currents under four category-5 (super) typhoons [Chaba (2004), Maon (2004), Saomai (2006), and Jangmi (2008)] were studied using data from four drifters of the Surface Velocity Program (SVP) (Niiler, 2001) in the northwestern Pacific. Maximum current velocities occurring to the right of the super typhoon tracks were observed as 2.6ms-1 for slow-moving (2.9ms-1) Maon, 2.1ms-1 for typical-moving Chaba (5.1ms-1), 1.4ms-1 for fast-moving Jangmi (6.8ms-1), and 1.2ms-1 for fast-moving Saomai (8.1ms-1). Furthermore, dependence of the mixed layer current velocity under a super typhoon on its translation speed and statistical relationships between the maximum current speed and the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale are also provided.
AB - The upper ocean currents under four category-5 (super) typhoons [Chaba (2004), Maon (2004), Saomai (2006), and Jangmi (2008)] were studied using data from four drifters of the Surface Velocity Program (SVP) (Niiler, 2001) in the northwestern Pacific. Maximum current velocities occurring to the right of the super typhoon tracks were observed as 2.6ms-1 for slow-moving (2.9ms-1) Maon, 2.1ms-1 for typical-moving Chaba (5.1ms-1), 1.4ms-1 for fast-moving Jangmi (6.8ms-1), and 1.2ms-1 for fast-moving Saomai (8.1ms-1). Furthermore, dependence of the mixed layer current velocity under a super typhoon on its translation speed and statistical relationships between the maximum current speed and the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale are also provided.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2014.07.011
DO - 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2014.07.011
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84907866396
SN - 0924-7963
VL - 139
SP - 311
EP - 319
JO - Journal of Marine Systems
JF - Journal of Marine Systems
ER -