{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["110(38)"],"submitter":["Mei W"],"pubmed_abstract":["Tropical cyclones have been hypothesized to influence climate by pumping heat into the ocean, but a direct measure of this warming effect is still lacking. We quantified cyclone-induced ocean warming by directly monitoring the thermal expansion of water in the wake of cyclones, using satellite-based sea surface height data that provide a unique way of tracking the changes in ocean heat content on seasonal and longer timescales. We find that the long-term effect of cyclones is to warm the ocean at a rate of 0.32 ± 0.15 PW between 1993 and 2009, i.e., ∼23 times more efficiently per unit area than the background equatorial warming, making cyclones potentially important modulators of the climate by affecting heat transport in the ocean-atmosphere system. Furthermore, our analysis reveals that "],"journal":["Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America"],"pagination":["15207-10"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC3780896"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Sea surface height evidence for long-term warming effects of tropical cyclones on the ocean."],"pmcid":["PMC3780896"],"pubmed_authors":["Mei W","McWilliams JC","Pasquero C","Primeau F"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Sea surface height evidence for long-term warming effects of tropical cyclones on the ocean.","description":"Tropical cyclones have been hypothesized to influence climate by pumping heat into the ocean, but a direct measure of this warming effect is still lacking. We quantified cyclone-induced ocean warming by directly monitoring the thermal expansion of water in the wake of cyclones, using satellite-based sea surface height data that provide a unique way of tracking the changes in ocean heat content on seasonal and longer timescales. We find that the long-term effect of cyclones is to warm the ocean at a rate of 0.32 ± 0.15 PW between 1993 and 2009, i.e., ∼23 times more efficiently per unit area than the background equatorial warming, making cyclones potentially important modulators of the climate by affecting heat transport in the ocean-atmosphere system. Furthermore, our analysis reveals that ","dates":{"release":"2013-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2013 Sep","modification":"2025-04-20T03:18:54.153Z","creation":"2019-03-27T01:16:26Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC3780896","cross_references":{"pubmed":["23922393"],"doi":["10.1073/pnas.1306753110"]}}