Role of surface warming in the northward shift of tropical cyclone tracks over the South China Sea in November

SUN Jia; WANG Guihua; ZUO Juncheng; LING Zheng; LIU Dahai

doi:10.1007/s13131-017-1061-8

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SUN Jia, WANG Guihua, ZUO Juncheng, LING Zheng, LIU Dahai. Role of surface warming in the northward shift of tropical cyclone tracks over the South China Sea in November[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2017, 36(5): 67-72. doi: 10.1007/s13131-017-1061-8

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SUN Jia, WANG Guihua, ZUO Juncheng, LING Zheng, LIU Dahai. Role of surface warming in the northward shift of tropical cyclone tracks over the South China Sea in November[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2017, 36(5): 67-72. doi: 10.1007/s13131-017-1061-8

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Role of surface warming in the northward shift of tropical cyclone tracks over the South China Sea in November

doi: 10.1007/s13131-017-1061-8

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The First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Qingdao 266061, China;Laboratory for Regional Oceanography and Numerical Modeling, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266061, China
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Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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Key Laboratory of Coastal Disaster and Defense of Ministry of Education, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
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Guangdong Key Laboratory of Coastal Ocean Variability and Disater Prediction, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, China

Received Date: 2016-05-27

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Tropical cyclones (TCs) formed in the Northwest Pacific Ocean (NWP) can cross the South China Sea (SCS) sometimes. It is found that the TC tracks in the SCS in November are shifted to the north after 1980 compared with those before 1980. Both data analyses and numerical simulations show that the surface warming in the SCS may contribute to this more northward shift. The warming produces a cyclonic atmosphere circulation anomaly in the northwestern SCS and an associated southerly in the central SCS steering the TCs to the north.
- tropical cyclone,
- track,
- South China Sea,
- sea surface temperature

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