Abstract
Tropical cyclones (TCs) are essential for many reasons, including their destruction of human lives and property and their effect on heat and nutrient fluxes between the ocean’s surface and its depths. A better understanding of ocean fluxes is needed to predict the impact of global climate change on the oceans and to quantify how ocean heat content modulates the dynamics of global climate change. Similarly, improved modeling of nutrient fluxes is crucial for maintaining fisheries and preserving crucial marine ecosystems to benefit both humanity and marine life. Numerous remote sensors measure crucial geophysical quantities before, during, and after TCs, including sea surface temperature (SST), ocean color, chlorophyll concentration, ocean surface winds, sea surface height, and significant wave height. In this special issue, an international group of researchers have written articles describing (1) novel techniques and remote sensors for measuring the aforementioned quantities in tropical cyclones, (2) methods for validating and improving the accuracy of those measurements and harmonizing them among different sensors, (3) scientific analyses that investigate the relationships between remote-sensed ocean surface measurements and in situ measurements of vertical profiles of ocean temperature, salinity, and current, and (4) strategies for utilizing remote-sensed measurements to improve operational forecasts in order to provide better tropical cyclone warnings to human populations.
Highlights
The articles in this issue run the gamut from improvements to data accuracy, timeliness, and availability [1,2,3,4], and characterization and removal of biases among existing data sets [5,6], to the utilization of remotely sensed data to improve Tropical cyclones (TCs) characterization and ocean surge detection and forecasts [7,8,9,10], with novel scientific analyses [11,12,13] that illuminate the relationship between TCs and ocean heat and nutrient fluxes
A better understanding of ocean fluxes is needed to predict the impact of global climate change on the oceans and to quantify how ocean heat content modulates the dynamics of global climate change
An international group of researchers have written articles describing (1) novel techniques and remote sensors for measuring the aforementioned quantities in tropical cyclones, (2) methods for validating and improving the accuracy of those measurements and harmonizing them among different sensors, (3) scientific analyses that investigate the relationships between remote-sensed ocean surface measurements and in situ measurements of vertical profiles of ocean temperature, salinity, and current, and (4) strategies for utilizing remote-sensed measurements to improve operational forecasts in order to provide better tropical cyclone warnings to human populations
Summary
The articles in this issue run the gamut from improvements to data accuracy, timeliness, and availability [1,2,3,4], and characterization and removal of biases among existing data sets [5,6], to the utilization of remotely sensed data to improve TC characterization and ocean surge detection and forecasts [7,8,9,10], with novel scientific analyses [11,12,13] that illuminate the relationship between TCs and ocean heat and nutrient fluxes.
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