Fig. 1: Identified drifter observations and corresponding tropical cyclones.
From: Weak self-induced cooling of tropical cyclones amid fast sea surface warming
Storm-local sea surface temperature and cooling observations are identified by pairing drifters with tropical cyclones. a, Global distribution of Category 1–5 tropical cyclones paired with drifters. b, Identified storm-local sea surface temperature and cooling observations within a 500-km radius from storm centres. In total, 32,801 storm-local drifter samples are identified, which capture 77% of Category 1–5 tropical cyclones. The distribution of storm-local samples overlaps reasonably well with the distribution of global tropical cyclones with a strong correlation reaching 0.82 (P = 8.35 × 10−89 based on a two-sided Student’s t-test). Basemaps generated using M_Map v1.4 (www.eoas.ubc.ca/~rich/map.html).
