Unusual coastal ocean cooling in the northern South China Sea by a katabatic cold jet associated with Typhoon Mujigea (2015)

SHI Yuxin; XIE Lingling; ZHENG Quanan; ZHANG Shuwen; LI Mingming; LI Junyi

doi:10.1007/s13131-019-1440-4

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SHI Yuxin, XIE Lingling, ZHENG Quanan, ZHANG Shuwen, LI Mingming, LI Junyi. Unusual coastal ocean cooling in the northern South China Sea by a katabatic cold jet associated with Typhoon Mujigea (2015)[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2019, 38(5): 62-75. doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1440-4

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SHI Yuxin, XIE Lingling, ZHENG Quanan, ZHANG Shuwen, LI Mingming, LI Junyi. Unusual coastal ocean cooling in the northern South China Sea by a katabatic cold jet associated with Typhoon Mujigea (2015)[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2019, 38(5): 62-75. doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1440-4

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SHI Yuxin, XIE Lingling, ZHENG Quanan, ZHANG Shuwen, LI Mingming, LI Junyi. Unusual coastal ocean cooling in the northern South China Sea by a katabatic cold jet associated with Typhoon Mujigea (2015)[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2019, 38(5): 62-75. doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1440-4

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Unusual coastal ocean cooling in the northern South China Sea by a katabatic cold jet associated with Typhoon Mujigea (2015)

doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1440-4

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Guangdong Key Laboratory of Coastal Ocean Variation and Disaster Prediction, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, China
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Guangdong Key Laboratory of Coastal Ocean Variation and Disaster Prediction, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, China;Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA

Received Date: 2018-03-16

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Abstract

This study deals with a unusual cooling event after Typhoon Mujigea passed over the northern South China Sea (SCS) in October 2015. We analyze the satellite sea surface temperature (SST) time series from October 3 to 18, 2015 and find that the cooling process in the coastal ocean had two different stages. The first stage occurred immediately after typhoon passage on October 3, and reached a maximum SST drop of -2℃ on October 7 as the usual cold wake after typhoon. The second stage or the unusual extended cooling event occurred after 7 d of the typhoon passage, and lasted for 5 d from October 10 to 15. The maximum SST cooling was -4℃ and occurred after 12 d of typhoon passage. The mechanism analysis results indicate that after landing and moving northwestward to the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau (YGP), Typhoon Mujigea (2015) met the westerly wind front on October 5. The low-pressure and positive-vorticity disturbances to the front triggered meridional air flow and low-pressure trough, thus induced a katabatic cold jet downward from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) passing through the YGP to the northwestern SCS. The second cooling reached the maximum SST drop 4 d later after the maximum air temperature drop of -9℃ on October 11. The simultaneous air temperature and SST observations at three coastal stations reveal that it is this katabatic cold jet intrusion to lead the unusual SST cooling event.
- Typhoon Mujigea (2015),
- second-round cooling,
- katabatic cold jet,
- South China Sea,
- westerly wind front

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