Upper ocean response to two collocated typhoons

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In recent years understanding the predictability of tropical cyclone formation, intensification, and structure change has been a subject of intense interest.On the experimental front, THe Observing system Research and Predictability EXperiment (THORPEX) has concentrated on improving the skill of 1-14 day forecasts of high-impact weather.Throughout the THORPEX program, several regional campaigns have been undertaken to address these events.One such multi-national program was conducted during Figures August-September 2008 over the Western North Pacific (WPAC) as the summer component of THORPEX Pacific Asian Regional Campaign in collaboration with the ONRsponsored Tropical Cyclone Structure 2008 experiment, referred to as TPARC/TCS08.The focus of TPARC/TCS08 has been on various aspects of typhoon activity, including formation, intensification, structure change, motion, and extra-tropical transition (Elsberry and Harr, 2008).Another recent joint program -The Impacts of Typhoons on the Ocean in the Pacific and Tropical Cyclone Structure 2010 (ITOP/TCS10) took place during September-October 2010 also in WPAC (D'Asaro et al., 2011).It too was a multi-national field campaign that aimed to study the ocean response to typhoons in the Western Pacific Ocean with scientific objectives related to the formation and dissipation of typhoon cold wakes, the magnitude of air-sea fluxes for winds greater than 30 m s −1 , the influence of ocean eddies on typhoons, the surface wave field under typhoons, and typhoon genesis in relation to environmental factors.These projects built upon the earlier air-sea interaction observations obtained in the Atlantic during the Coupled Boundary Layer Air-Sea Transfer (CBLAST) experiment conducted in the western Atlantic (Black et al., 2007).One feature of particular interest related to the air-sea interaction associated with tropical cyclone passage is the formation and dissipation of cold wakes (D'Asaro et al., 2007;Price et al., 2008;Fisher, 1958).It is known that cold wakes can persist for several weeks after the passage of a typhoon (Price et al., 2008) during which time they evolve due to a number of processes such as solar heating, lateral mesoscale stirring, lateral mixing by baroclinic instability and vertical mixing which act to determine the rate and character of the wake dissipation (Price, 1981;Price et al., 1986).The cold ocean wake is also expected to modify the atmospheric boundary layer (Wu et al., 2007;Cione and Uhlhorn, 2003;Ramage, 1974) and the biology and chemistry of the upper ocean (Babin et al., 2004;Lin et al., 2003).The wake development itself depends on complex non-linear atmospheric forcing related to the tropical cyclone size, strength and transitional speed as well as background ocean conditions like the upper ocean Introduction

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Full stratification and depth of the thermocline (Price et al., 1994;Hong et al., 2007;Schade and Emanuel, 1999).Even though some progress towards understanding the oceanic response to cyclone passage has been recently documented, direct measurements of the oceanic state for such events are limited (D'Asaro et al., 2007(D'Asaro et al., , 2011;;Mrvaljevic et al., 2013).As the tropical cyclone development and intensification is sensitive to the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) (Wu et al., 2007;Emanuel et al., 2004), it follows that cold wakes would likely affect the development and intensification of subsequent tropical cyclones that happen to follow a similar track to their predecessor within a short period of time.The interaction of two cyclones closely related in time and space thus provides a natural laboratory for studying ocean response and cold wake persistence.
To our knowledge, the question of how the cold wake of the trailing typhoon might change as a result of the disturbed oceanic state generated by its predecessor has not been previously addressed.Such interaction might be important for proper assessment and forecast of ocean stratification, SST and evolution of atmospheric convection.In this article, we address this question by concentrating on a system of two typhoons which followed nearly identical tracks within a time span of seven days.One of the unique aspects of the study is the analysis of in situ daily ocean profile observations which were provided by an Argo float deployed by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and TEChnology (JAMSTEC) as part of the PALAU2008 field experiment (in collaboration with TPARC/TCS08).As Argo floats typically resurface once every ten days, this daily-profiling Argo float thus provides a unique opportunity to study the ocean temperature and salinity changes associated with the passage of two consecutive typhoons.
We begin with climatology of the region in Sect. 2 in an effort to define the basic state of the ocean which existed prior to the passage of the typhoon couplet of interest in this study.This is followed by description of the Argo data as well as the ocean model and wind fields used to conduct numerical simulations of the cold wake dynamics.The insitu observations of mixed layer (ML) evolution as obtained by the daily JAMSTEC Argo Introduction

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Full float are presented in Sect. 3 while Sect. 4 presents modeling results which include the comparison model runs and numerical experiments.A summary of the primary results and discussion can be found in Sect. 5.
2 Oceanic state and description of methods

Basic oceanic state
The Western Pacific (WPAC) has the largest number and frequency of tropical cyclones (TC) of all the ocean basins (Frank and Young, 2007).During the typhoon season in this basin, which usually lasts from mid-July till mid-November, there are typically around 30 tropical cyclones (TC) half of which achieve typhoon strength (Lander, 1994).Our analysis of the typhoon tracks in WPAC during 2000 to 2010 shows there were a total of 288 TCs of which 33 % had recurring tracks, defined as those TC's that are separated temporally by no more than a two-week period and which exhibit storms tracks that lie no more than 100 km apart (Fig. 1).Of the TC's reaching the typhoon stage, 17 % (or 32 typhoons) were found to have recurring tracks.While the use of more stringent search criteria of 50 km reduces the number of repeating storms to about 10 % (28 typhoons), it is clear that on average, there was more than one pair of typhoons exhibiting repeating tracks for this basin in each season examined.For the recurring typhoons there is generally only a short period of time for the ocean to fully recover to the initial undisturbed state prior to the passage of the subsequent storm.One thus expects in such cases that the oceanic mixed layer (ML) encountered by the trailing storm is perturbed and may have an impact on the subsequent typhoon development.In a effort to establish the undisturbed conditions for our subsequent analyses, the mean temperature, salinity and density profiles from the Argo based climatology (Roemmich and Gilson, 2009) were computed for the 1 × 1 • box region centered at 17.5 • N, 126.5 • E that corresponds to the mean location for our area of interest (Fig. 2).This dataset is based on Argo profiles for years 2004-2010 and Introduction

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Full shows the overall time-mean profiles along with their standard deviation for the month of September (given by the gray curves in the plot).When these longer term climatological profiles are compared with the conditions during September of 2008 associated with the development of Hagupit and Jangmi, we find that the ocean state accompanying these storms was warmer and less salty by approximately one and two standard deviations, respectively.Climatological SST for September based on the same dataset is shown in Fig. 1; SST in the area of interest is horizontally uniform.Typhoon Hagupit passed through the analysis region on 21 September as a Saffir-Simpson Category (CAT) 1 typhoon followed by the CAT 3 typhoon Jangmi on 26 September (see Figs. 3 and 4,respectively).The passage of the Hagupit-Jangmi typhoons pair was itself preceded in this area by developing typhoon Sinlaku in early September and typhoon Nuri in mid-August.While precipitation from the Hagupit-Jangmi typhoons pair may have themselves contributed to a fresher than usual ML, we suspect that September 2008 was warmer and less salty than normal due to the passage through the same area by these two previous typhoons.Sinlaku developed into a tropical storm on 8-9 September passing through the middle of the region only 12 days prior to Hagupit.Typhoon Nuri, meanwhile, passed through the northern portion of the region as at CAT 1 intensity storm on 19 August.The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) microwave satellite imagery (http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/tc-bin/tc_home2.cgi) for Sinlaku showed that the eye of this storm was just developing and was associated with weaker rainbands that passed through the analysis area.The Nuri imagery indicated that the heaviest precipitation region associated with this typhoon was centered over the southern portion of our area of interest.Therefore, the winds over this region would have been light during both of these events, but the rainfall would likely have been extensive and heavy, probably resulting in the less saline conditions for September 2008, but with very little ML modification due to wind forcing.Introduction

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Argo data
Of the large number of Argo floats present in the western Pacific region in September 2008, only one happened to be fortuitously located right between the two sequentially occurring typhoons Hagupit and Jangmi.This instrument, float ID 5901579, was deployed by JAMSTEC as part of the PALAU2008 field program and was set to conduct a vertical profile of the ocean from a depth of 500 m to the surface every day.This float was initially released from R/V Mirai and was intended to measure air-sea interactions with the particular objective of improving understanding of intra-seasonal variations in the Western Pacific.For that reason it was set up to take one profile every day with the vertical resolution of about 5 m from the ocean surface down to 200 m; below 200 m the float's resolution is about 10 m.The data obtained thus provides a unique opportunity to study daily changes in the upper ocean during the sequential passage of these two active typhoons.Only data flagged "good" are used; therefore some data points are skipped.Presence of this particular instrument at that time and location was highly fortunate.Both typhoons Hagupit and Jangmi were intensively studied as part of TPARC/TCS08 field campaign, but none of the instruments deployed as part of targeted measurements were in the position to measure response to repeating typhoon passages.
Figure 5 shows that the float was located near 17.5 • N, 126.5 A three dimensional, primitive equations, hydrostatic numerical ocean model (3DPWP) (Price et al., 1994(Price et al., , 1986) ) is used for numerical simulations of the cold wakes examined in this study.The model runs were performed with a 5 km horizontal resolution and a variable vertical grid resolution that was set to 5 m between the surface and 100 m, and a constant 10 m resolution below a depth of 100 m.The total domain depth was set to 2000 m.The model was initialized with the wind field obtained from Cooperative Institute for Research in Atmosphere (CIRA) as the surface forcing (Figs. 3 and 4) and employed the drag coefficient defined by (Powell et al., 2003).
In addition to original model we modified the momentum equation to introduce additional term, a linear drag that affects currents only (Park et al., 2009).The equation has the form of u = u(1 − dt/τ), where u is 2-dimensional velocity vector and τ is inertial current decay time parameter.This parameter allows the damping of inertial currents faster than in resolved dispersion process.This modification is to account for the decay of currents after the passage of the first TC.By default τ is set to 1 day in most of the model runs presented in this study (Price, 1981).However, because of uncertainty in this parameter some sensitivity studies are performed to assess the decayed current impact on the resulted mixing.The model initial ocean conditions were assumed to be horizontally homogenous and correspond to the undisturbed Argo profile shown in Fig. 6.Five model experiments were performed -two control simulations and three sensitivity experiments (Table 1).For the "control" simulation, typhoon Hagupit (hereafter referred to as HH) was initialized based on the pre-Hagupit ocean conditions.The typhoon Jangmi control case (hereafter referred to as JJ) was initialized from the pre-Jangmi oceanic conditions.These simulations were performed to estabilish model's three dimensional ocean response from these two TC forcings.They are compared with in situ observations from Argo float and the sensitivity experiments.The sensitivity "experiment 1" (HJ) is the same as the Jangmi control except the initial ocean is from the pre-Hagupit conditions.Sensitivity "experiment 2" simulates two sequential Introduction

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Full typhoons and it was initialized with the pre-Hagupit conditions (HHJ).The two model typhoon trajectories are separated by 140 km, which corresponds to the observed track distance between these two typhoons (see Fig. 5).In the final set of experiments, we investigate the ocean's response to two identical Hagupit-like forcings following the same track but separated by 55-195 h in time.Pre-Hagupit conditions are used as initial conditions in this experiment (HHH).
For the "pre-Hagupit" conditions, the Argo profile for 19 September is used and for the "pre-Jangmi" conditions the profile from 25 September is used (Fig. 6).The translational velocity of the typhoon is set to 6 m s −1 in all numerical experiments based on the best tracks data from Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) and Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC).These assumptions reproduced a good agreement between the model and 6 hourly CIRA wind speeds at the Argo float location (Fig. 7).
For the control simulations HH and JJ, we compare the mixed layer temperature (MLT), temperature tendencies, mixed layer depth (MLD), and stratification in the thermocline.We exercised some care when doing such direct model and measurements comparisons.For example, it is observed (Price, 1981;Firing et al., 1997;Sanford et al., 2011) that after a typhoon's passage there are inertial oscillations in the ocean which cause vertical oscillations of the thermocline and which therefore change the MLD.The Argo profiles were collected once a day in our case; thus it is not possible to distinguish the phase of the inertial oscillation (and its MLD modifications).Nevertheless, they provide a sanity check for the model simulated MLT, temperature tendencies, and thermocline stratification.

Wind stress
The typhoon wind fields used to initialize the model for Hagupit and Jangmi were obtained from the CIRA Multiplatform Satellite Surface Wind Analysis Product (images available at http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/products/tc_realtime/).These data are available at 6 h intervals and have a 0.1 × 0.1 • spatial resolution.The wind field from 21 September, 06Z analysis was selected for the Hagupit model runs (Fig. 3) Introduction

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Both choices are based on the closest distance of each storm from the position of the Argo float.For Hagupit, the Argo float was located at a distance approximately 1.5 times the radius of maximum winds (R max ) to the right of the TC where maximum wind speeds were on order of 30 m s −1 , whereas for the stronger Jangmi the float was approximately 2.5 • R max to the left of the TC where the maximum wind speeds were on order of 35 m s −1 (Figs. 3 and 4).
Figure 7 shows the time series of wind speed corresponding to the location of the daily Argo float ascent to the surface.The first wind maximum evident on 21 September corresponds to the passage of typhoon Hagupit while the second wind maximum, on 26 September, corresponds to the passage of typhoon Jangmi.The deviation between wind speed in the model and the CIRA data for the same location are due to evolution of typhoon wind field.One specific wind field (Figs. 3 and 4) was used for each individual typhoon, while the CIRA based wind time series show wind speeds at float location obtained from sequential (6 h interval) wind fields.Such an assumption is only valid when changes in overall wind field of the typhoon are small for the 24 h period.

Ocean evolution during the typhoon passage
In this section we focus on the period between 15 September and 6 October 2008 when the float's position (Fig. 5) was between the tracks of the two typhoons.At the location of the float, a decrease of 0.67 • C SST is visible after Hagupit's passage on September 21 (Fig. 8).This cooling is associated with an approximate 20 m deepening of the ML from ∼ 60 m to ∼ 80 m that occurred as Hagupit passed through the region.
While the SST cooling due to the passage of typhoon Jangmi was about 0.22 • C, no substantial changes in the mixed layer depth (MLD) was detected by the Argo float.
The minimum SST of 28.6 • C is observed on 28 September and is followed by warming of the ML due to the solar heating at the surface and its gradual downward propagation due to mixing (recovery process).Introduction

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Full The temperature and salinity at a depth of 4 m is plotted as a function of time in Fig. 9 for the time period between 20 September and 10 October.The position of the float during this period did not vary substantially indicating small currents at the times when the float resurfaced.This suggests that the background large scale horizontal advection not associated with inertial movement forced by typhoon had a limited role in the observed behavior.The drop in temperature beginning on 19 September is associated with a large variation in the salinity values (of magnitude 0.2 psu) observed between 19 September and 1 October.We speculate that the salinity variation was caused by the mixing of more saline water from beneath the thermocline modulated by the fresh water input from typhoon precipitation.It was suggested (Jacob and Koblinsky, 2007;Price, 2009) that freshening of the ML acts to increase the stability and reduce the subsequent entrainment of the cold water from thermocline.At the float location the wind speed was comparable for both typhoons (Fig. 5), but the mixed layer temperature and salinity response to typhoon Jangmi (26-27 September) was weaker, most probably due to the float's different relative position with respect to the typhoon track.
The wind stress coupling with inertial oscillations may also enhance the mixing on the right side of the typhoon track (Price, 1981), possibly helping to explain the results shown here.Observations taken during the passage of Jangmi, on the other hand, were limited to the left side of the typhoon track where mixing is not supported by coupling with inertial currents curl.

Model -in situ comparison
In this section we present the control run results for HH and JJ simulations and we compare the modeled ocean response with the available Argo float observations.For comparison with in situ measurements, we use the results at the float location which were, the track of Jangmi.Figure 10 shows such profile comparisons for typhoon Hagupit.
Overall, one can observe a very good correspondence between the observed and modeled cooling during the early typhoon approach and passage of typhoon Hagupit for the four sequential Argo profiles plotted in Fig. 10.The maximum modeled cooling of 0.8 • C matches the observations quite well, for example, as do the temperature tendencies within the mixed layer.The day-3 Argo profile in Fig. 10 is missing the upper 20 m of data and, therefore, it is not possible to compare it with modeled response, though modeled temperature below 20 m and depth of the thermocline are represented well when compared to observations.It shows that model well reproduces cooling processes in this case.It is also apparent that temperature gradients within the upper thermocline are also well captured by the model.Substantial deviation between model and observations is evident far below the ML and these may result from internal wave forcing from the model lateral boundaries.During typhoon Hagupit passage in situ observations were made within area of maximum modeled temperature anomaly.This comparison implies that 3DPWP model performs well within area of the cold wake.
Figure 11 shows a comparison of the observed and modeled vertical profiles of temperature for typhoon Jangmi between 25-28 September at a time when the float was approximately 100 km to the left of the storm track, in the opposite region from the right side maximum cooling predicted by the model.As with Hagupit, it can be seen that the mixed layer temperature predicted by the model agrees well with the observed conditions.Although part of the day-1 in-situ profile is missing above 40 m, one expects that it is well mixed and similar to the prior profile under strong wind conditions evident in Fig. 5.The model also does well in predicting the depth of the mixed layer particularly during days 1 and 2. Note that the observed cooling comes to an end on 27 September after the SST's reach a minimum temperature of 28.6 • C. The model performs well in this regard with no change in temperature detected between days 2 and 3.The model on day-3 shows a relatively deeper MLD compared with the observations but that might be due to thermocline depth modified by the internal waves or other physical processes that were not represented in the model.Note that modeled profile hasn't changed from Introduction

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Full the previous day, when thermocline structure of observed profiles is clearly different.
Since the typhoon at this time already passed by the float location, it is likely that the observed change is due to factors other than interaction with typhoon Jangmi.Model estimates of the MLD and temperature gradient within the thermocline are quite good with the exception of day-3.
Although typhoon Jangmi case has stronger winds, the modeled cold wake is weaker than for Hagupit.One possible explanation may lie in the role of the initial ocean static stability and MLD in contributing to the overall wake cooling (Price, 1981).The data plotted in Fig. 6 shows that the temperature at 100 m depth is about 27 • C for both of the initial profiles.However, comparing the temperature at 100 m to the SST in each case we find a 2.4 • C difference for the pre-Hagupit profile and 1.6 • C for the pre-Jangmi profile.The bigger temperature differences (less stable conditions) suggests that a higher cooling potential may exist in the Hagupit case.A shallower initial MLD causes a bigger cooling in the ocean for pre-Hagupit case in comparison to the pre-Jangmi case.In addition, presence of the barrier layer in pre-Jangmi profile is influencing the results: the pre-Jangmi salinity profile (squares at middle plot in Fig. 5) shows that within the 80 m deep ML there exists a shallower layer of fresher (∼ 0.1 psu) water, such a structure may reduce the amount of cooling associated with the typhoon passage (Wang et al., 2011).Another possible explanation for weaker ocean response to stronger typhoon Jangmi is counter coupling with inertial currents forced on the upper ocean by typhoon Hagupit passage.It is known (Price, 1981) that interaction between wind field curl and inertial motions is one of the key factors for inhomogeneous response of the upper ocean to typhoon-like forcing resulting in development of the cold wake to the right side of typhoon track (on the Northern Hemisphere).Therefore coupling with inertial oscillations which are pre-existing prior to the typhoon approach might either benefit or suppress mixing.We will address this point by the analysis of HHH experiments in the next session.Introduction

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Full The overall comparisons with the Argo float indicate that the 3DPWP model does a good job simulating the mixed-layer temperature and vertical structure changes during the individual typhoon passages.It can be used to investigate the ocean response to two sequential typhoon-like forcing.

Influence of typhoon Hagupit on typhoon Jangmi ocean response
The close proximity of the Hagupit and Jangmi tracks (140 km) and passage (6 days) over Argo float 5901579 raises a natural question: what influence did typhoon Hagupit had on the oceanic response caused by typhoon Jangmi?To investigate this relationship, we use the 3DPWP model to simulate the oceanic response caused by the typhoon Jangmi using the pre-Hagupit conditions as the typhoon's initial state (HJ) and by Hagupit and Jangmi with a 6 day gap between them (HHJ).We should stress that the effects of typhoon Hagupit are not only limited to the vertical ocean mixing, but may also include changes in the fresh water flux due to precipitation, inertial ocean motions, and other effects which may depend on a characteristic time of relaxation (Price et al., 2008).However, we concentrate here on contribution from the wind driven forcing and therefore shortwave flux and fresh water flux were set to 0 in this experiment.The initial oceanic state is a horizontally homogeneous ocean based on the Argo profile from 19 September.
To quantify the difference between these two experiments, let us define the double-TC anomaly difference as: ( where indices HJ and HHJ refer to "experiment 1" and "experiment 2" simulations respectively.Ocean state at time t 1 is disturbed by typhoon Hagupit and represents upper ocean structure prior to the arrival of typhoon Jangmi. It can be seen (Figs. 12 and 13) that cooling caused by typhoon Jangmi would have been significantly stronger if it had not been preceded by typhoon Hagupit.The cold wake behind Jangmi in the HJ run is situated on the right side of the track and has Introduction

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Full a width of roughly 100 km. Figure 12 shows that temperature anomaly would be magnified but also on the opposite side.Strongest difference is visible 50-100 km to the left of the track of typhoon Jangmi where the cold wake of typhoon Hagupit is located.In HHJ run this part of the ocean was strongly disturbed by Hagupit, thus mixed layer was cooled and deepened.Additional cooling due to passage of Jangmi was only 0.3 • C. If there were no Hagupit, downward momentum transport and mixing enhanced by typhoon Jangmi would have accounted for twice as strong mixing in this location.
The different horizontal distributions of temperature anomaly simulated with the same atmospheric forcing suggest that disturbed and undisturbed ocean initial conditions, especially the initial MLD, influenced not only the amplitude of the anomaly but also its spatial distribution.Figure 13 presents the double-TC temperature anomaly vertical cross section averaged over an inertial period.Since a typhoon passage produces inertial oscillations in the ocean, we average the simulation results over 40 h period (roughly the period of inertial oscillations at 17.5 • N) to remove them.The abscissa in the plot represents the distance from the Jangmi track, and the ordinate represents the ocean depth.The ordinate position is at the typhoon center.The surface cold anomaly is seen to be approximately 0.4 • C both to the right and left side of the track.Benearth the surface, there is an altinating positive and negative double-TC anomalies extending across the typhoon track with a larger and more complex pattern on the left side of typhoon.This is due to a disturbed initial upper-ocean on the left of Jangmi due to Hagupi.The subsurface net cooling down to about 50 m would have been stronger if there is no typhoon Hagupit.
A second question that can be examined is how the final ocean state after the passage of two sequential cyclones might differ from that obtained with the passage of just one typhoon.Let us introduce the following final-state temperature anomaly: ( where the first term defines the final ocean state after the passage of Jangmi without any influence from Hagupit.The second term represents a sequence of oceanic

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Full anomalies caused by the passage of Hagupit followed by Jangmi in the single model run.Temperature defined in Eq. ( 2) is presented in Fig. 14.An overall effect on the ocean of two sequential typhoons is stronger then effect of typhoon Jangmi itself (indicated by positive values), though substantial variation in temperature anomaly is visible.On the left side of Jangmi's track the anomaly is stronger, which means that two collocated typhoons caused cooling of 0.25 • C stronger then Jangmi alone.This can be explained by the absence of Hagupit's forcing on the ocean; note that −100 km is in the peak region of Hagupit induced cold wake.On the right side of typhoon Jangmi's track, joint effect of Hagupit and Jangmi is only 0.06 • C stronger then cooling from Jangmi alone -which is small.This accounts for only 5 % of temperature anomaly in cold wake (Table 2).Note that cooling reported in this study depends on momentum transfer and mixing exclusively.Factors like heavy precipitation, which is known to form barrier layers and therefore limit magnitude of anomaly (Wang et al., 2011), were omitted.
All results presented so far in this section were calculated with 3DPWP model runs using decay time for inertial currents equal 1 day.Since there is uncertainty of this parameter (Park et al., 2009) we performed number of model runs with different decay times of linear drag term.Results show that spatial distribution of temperature anomalies does not depend on this parameter, but magnitude of anomalies is sensitive to characteristic decay time.Table 2 contains values of maximum cooling in HHJ run and minimum temperature anomalies (as defined by Eq. 2) for different characteristic decay times.One can notice that both maximum cooling and minimum temperature anomaly are increasing with increasing decay time.This result shows that in addition to downward transport by typhoon, the amount of kinetic energy aggregated in the upper ocean is an important factor for the cold wake development.Entrainment and mixing depends on ocean initial kinetic energy and energy transported by momentum flux from the atmosphere during interaction with typhoon.Increase of interial currents decay time parameter results in slower dispersion of inertial currents and in our case increase of inertial currents kinetic energy prior to sequential typhoon approach.With increasing

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Full kinetic energy in the mixed layer prior to typhoon Jangmi, simulated cooling magnitude increases as shown in Table 2.
Up to now we discussed how presence of typhoon Hagupit influences ocean response to typhoon Jangmi.The next set of numerical experiments is designed to answer the question about the role of distance between typhoon centers on strength of oceanic cooling effects.To simplify the problem, we performed a series of simulations using two identical Hagupit-like wind fields following the same trajectory but with different time lags range from 55 to 195 h between them (HHH).The inertial damping parameter is set such that the relaxation time is long, which means the ocean kinetic energy is conserved and not dissipated.Results (Fig. 15) are averaged over the inertial oscillation period.Panel a shows cross track SST anomaly from different lags, an oscillation with period of ∼ 40 h is visible in area of the maximum cooling (x = 60 km) with magnitude of ∼ 0.2 • C. The oscillation period agrees with the inertial oscillations period at this latitude.The first SST anomaly minimum of 0.1 As in panel a, panel b shows the vertical cross section of temperature anomaly along the cold wake (x = 60 km on Panel a).One can notice the dependence of the temperature anomaly on lag time between sequential typhoons in the surface layer as well as below the thermocline.This is due to the coupling between wind stress curl and inertial motions in the mixed layer (Price, 1981).The results show for Hagupit-like typhoon, the wind stress curl and inertial motion coupling effect on the upper ocean temperature cooling occurred after two inertial oscillations (80 h) when there is no dissipation of ocean kinectic energy.The maximum surface cold anomaly is about 1.4 • C.
It is interesting to note that typhoon Jangmi occurred approximately 5 days (120 h) after typhoon Hagupit which is within the range of maximum anomaly seen from HHH experiments.This set of numerical experiments provide some evidence of ocean response to sequential TC in terms of the inertial oscillation effect.Introduction

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We consider the interaction of two typhoons closely collocated in time and space on the resulting observed and simulated ocean cold wake structure.We show unique observations of high repetition rate Argo float that collected in situ observations in close proximity to both typhoons.The numerical model was validated by imposing realistic atmospheric forcing using satellite derived (CIRA) winds and observed cyclone tracks, and compared model results with observed ocean structure using the high repetition Argo float.We show that cooling caused by the second typhoon (typhoon Jangmi) would have been about 0.5 • C (30 %) stronger if it had not been preceded by typhoon Hagupit.Addtionally we also see a different spatial distribution with stronger negative SST anomalies in both cold wake region and on the left side of the track.Similar to previous studies, our results confirm the importance of initial ocean condition on the ocean response to typhoon forcing.The disturbed ocean condition set up by a previous typhoon such as the case studied here deepen the mixed-layer depth and weaken the ocean response for the second typhoon following a similar track.This, in turns, may produce a stronger second typhoon due to less ocean cooling.We found the inertial current decay time has a non-negligible impact on the overall cooling magnitude.Our results indicate that in the case of the inertial currents decay time of 1 day, the single typhoon (Jangmi) would have created cooling only 5 % weaker in comparison to the combined effects of both Hagupit and Jangmi.If the value of current decay time is set to 10-days, then the difference in cooling magnitude between single and 2-typhoon case increases to 12 %.We show that the amount of pre-storm upper-ocean kinetic energy in the ocean is as important as the pre-storm mixed layer depth to affect rhe magnitude of the ocean cooling during the storm stage.To our knowledge, this factor has not been systematically examined before.Finally, we show that the magnitude of the cooling may also depend on the time lag between successive typhoons.Results suggest that the magnitude of the anomaly oscillates with the Introduction

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Full period of the inertial current and that the first maximum cooling occurs after two inertial oscillation periods (80 h).We present model simulations of two typhoons' impact on the upper ocean and their possible intricate relationship driven by both undisturbed and disturbed initial oceanic thermodynamical and dynamical states.This paper indicates that studies of successive ocean-atmosphere tropical cyclone interaction will benefit from more high repetition Argo float measurements such as these reported here and from higher density network of such floats.More coupled model studies are also warrant in order to further understand the impact of the ocean processes discussed here to typhoon's track and intensity change.Introduction

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Fig.1.Climatology of 288 Western Pacific typhoon tracks during year 2000 to 2010 and SST 3 climatology for September (top panel) and the number of recurring tracks for each year 4 (bottom panel).Two criteria of track radius, 50 and 100 km, were used to compute the 5 statistics.On the top panel tracks of typhoons Hagupit and Jangmi are black solid lines.6 Fig. 1.Climatology of 288 Western Pacific typhoon tracks during year 2000 to 2010 and SST climatology for September (top panel) and the number of recurring tracks for each year (bottom panel).Two criteria of track radius, 50 and 100 km, were used to compute the statistics.On the top panel tracks of typhoons Hagupit and Jangmi are black solid lines.

Fig. 2 .
Fig. 2. Monthly climatology of temperature, salinity and density from Argo based climatology (Roemmich and Gilson, 2009) for the 1 × 1 • grid centered at 17.5 • N, 126.5 • E. Solid grey line represents the mean value and dashed grey lines represent deviation from the mean (standard deviation).Solid black line shows the September 2008 value.

Fig. 3 .
Fig. 3.The wind speed [m s −1 ] and wind direction (blue arrows) at 06Z on 21 September.The best track of typhoon Hagupit is plotted as the magenta line with the diamonds denoting the 12 h storm position.The white circles indicate the daily Argo float locations between 18 September and 29 September.

Fig. 4 .Fig. 5 .
Fig. 4. The wind speed [m s −1 ] and wind direction (blue arrows) on 26 September.The best track position of typhoon Jangmi is plotted as the magenta line with diamonds denoting the 12 position of the storm center.The white circles indicate the daily Argo float locations between 18 September and 29 September.

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Fig. 5. Position of the Argo Float ID 5901579 between 1 September and October 10 with respect to the typhoon Hagupit (diamonds) and Jangmi (circles) best tracks.The various symbols represent different group time periods as denoted on the plot.

Fig. 7 .
Fig. 7. Wind speed as a function of time at the Argo float location (17.5 • N, 126.5 • E) based on observations and model results.The dots and diamonds represent CIRA data for typhoons Hagupit and Jangmi every 6 h.The dashed and dotted lines are wind speeds used in the model forcing (based on only one initial velocity field, but advected with the center of TC movement) for typhoons Hagupit and Jangmi respectively.

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Fig. 12. Double-TC surface temperature anomaly (see Eq. 1).Here, the distance perpendicular to the best track is plotted on the lower x-axis with negative values represent the distance to the left of the track, and positive values the distance to the right of the track.The upper x-axis present the same distance but normalized by the radius of maximum wind which is 25 km in this case.

Fig. 13 .
Fig.13.Vertical section of the double-TC temperature anomaly (see Eq. 1) averaged over an inertial period (40 h).The lower x-axis represents distance from the Jangmi track in km; the upper x-axis is the same distance normalized by radius of maximum wind which is 25 km in this case; the ordinate represents ocean depth in m.The 0 position is at the typhoon center.

Fig. 14 .
Fig.14.The HJ SST anomaly with respect to the total HHJ run anomaly (see Eq. 1).Here, distance perpendicular to the best track is plotted on the lower x-axis; negative values are to the left of the track, and positive values are to the right of the track.The upper x-axis present the same distance but normalized by the radius of maximum wind which is 25 km in this case.On the y-axis there is distance along the trajectory represented as time normalized by the inertial oscillation period (40 h).The cross track distance measures distance from the trajectory of typhoon Jangmi.The position of typhoon Hagupit is at −140 km.It can be seen that there is positive anomaly to the left and negative anomaly to the right of Jangmi's track.

Table 1 .
Description of the numerical experiments.

Table 2 .
Results of inertial current decay time sensitivity study.First column is currents decay time parameter in days.Second column shows difference between "single typhoon" (HJ) and "two typhoon" (HHJ) runs temperature anomalies.Third column shows maximum observed anomaly in "two typhoon" (HHJ) temperature anomaly.