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Tropical Cyclone Water Hazards

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Oceans and Coastal Zones".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 2715

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Scott Curtis

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Lt. Col. James B. Near, Jr., USAF, '77 Center for Climate Studies, The Citadel, Charleston, SC, USA
Interests: compound flooding; hurricanes; precipitation extremes; monsoon precipitation; coastal climate
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Dr. Jamie Brown Kruse

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Center for Natural Hazards Research, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27834, USA
Interests: decision-making under risk and uncertainty; economics of natural hazards; risk mitigation policy

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Tropical cyclones are a primary driver of water hazards in the coastal environment. In particular, storm surge and extreme rainfall within a tropical cyclone cause more fatalities than any other hazard. The floodwaters disrupt lives and livelihoods, damage property and infrastructure, and reshape the natural environment. Finally, extensive flooding can linger after the storm, leading to poor water quality and negative long-term health outcomes. Thus, tropical cyclones worldwide provide important case studies for understanding the complexity of compound flood risk. This Special Issue stems from the 2020 Conference HurriCon: Science at the Intersection of Hurricanes and the Populated Coast held at East Carolina University, USA. Themes explored in the conference, focused on Atlantic Hurricanes, will be expanded upon through local to global studies of: 

  • Estimation of flood risk from tropical cyclones;
  • Compounded floods and their connection to disaster response, management, and mitigation projects;
  • Tropical cyclone flood simulation and prediction;
  • Water-borne sediments and contaminants from tropical cyclones;
  • Compound flooding impacts on society.

Prof. Dr. Scott Curtis
Dr. Jamie Brown Kruse
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Tropical cyclones
  • Hurricanes
  • Flood
  • Water quality
  • Risk
  • Mitigation
  • Vulnerability

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Modulation of Typhoon-Induced Sea Surface Cooling by Preexisting Eddies in the South China Sea
by Jianmin Yu, Sheng Lin, Yue Jiang and Yuntao Wang
Water 2021, 13(5), 653; https://doi.org/10.3390/w13050653 - 28 Feb 2021
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Abstract
The interactions between mesoscale eddies and typhoons are important for understanding the oceanic environment, but large variance is identified in each case because of the complex underlying dynamics. Fifteen-year datasets of typhoon tracks and eddy tracks in the South China Sea (SCS) are [...] Read more.
The interactions between mesoscale eddies and typhoons are important for understanding the oceanic environment, but large variance is identified in each case because of the complex underlying dynamics. Fifteen-year datasets of typhoon tracks and eddy tracks in the South China Sea (SCS) are employed to comprehensively determine the influence of preexisting eddies on typhoon-induced sea surface cooling (SSC). Typhoons with high wind speeds and slow translation speeds induce large SSC in summer and autumn, when more than 80% of typhoons occur during a year. The relative locations of typhoons and eddies are used to classify their distributions, and four groups are identified, with typhoons traversing to the left or right of cyclonic or anticyclonic eddies. Generally, cyclonic eddies (CEs) located to the right of a typhoon track can result in a large cooling core, but anticyclonic eddies (AEs) can interrupt the cooling band along the right side of typhoon tracks. The recovery from typhoon-induced SSC takes longer than 15 days, though preexisting AEs can induce a rapid rebound after reaching the minimum sea surface temperature (SST). In addition, the dependence of SSCs on a typhoon’s features, such as wind speed and translation speed, are amplified (reduced) by CEs (AEs). The enhancement of typhoon-induced local SSC by CEs is counterbalanced by the suppression of SSC by AEs; thus, the overall impacts of CEs and AEs on typhoon-induced local SSC are relatively weak in the SCS. Full article
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