edu.ucar.opensky::articles:20895 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-26T02:28:33.864067 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7hq42bv An analytical model of maximum potential intensity for tropical cyclones incorporating the effect of ocean mixing 2017-06-16T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7hq42bv https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL073670 Miyamoto, Y. author Bryan, George H. author Rotunno, Richard author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher An analytical model of maximum potential intensity (PI) for tropical cyclones (TCs) incorporating wind-induced ocean cooling is developed on the basis of Emanuel's PI theory. The model consists of a one-dimensional ocean and an axisymmetric TC vortex that is translating at a constant speed. The model advances upon previous approaches by accounting for TC size and shape. The PI is determined at the radius of maximum winds by radially integrating the effect of ocean mixing using a specified wind profile. The resulting analytic ocean cooling agrees well with numerical solutions, and the new PI model better captures maximum intensities of observed TCs compared with Emanuel's original PI. It is also shown that the degree of cooling (i.e., ocean's feedback to atmosphere) can be quantified by a dimensionless parameter, representing the ratio of atmospheric forcing to ocean stability. UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact PDF Text theme Resource Type 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z publication Copyright 2017 American Geophysical Union. None eng geoscientificInformation