Main Contributors:
W. Timothy Liu (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Peter Chu (Naval Postgraduate School)
I I Lin (National Center for Oceanographic Research, Taiwan)
Shuyi S. Chen (University of Miami)

The intense vorticity of a tropical cyclone excites strong upwelling and the associated thermal and biological responses in the shallow coastal oceans and marginals seas. The available energy from the ocean is believed to be one of the main factors of the sudden intensification and the change of track for tropical cyclones. Three examples of our studies in these areas are presented below.

Biological Responses

Ocean Model Simulation

Atmospheric Model Simulation