The teams research analyzing the storms evolution waspublishedlast month in Environmental Research Letters.
But the density gradient between surface fresh water and deeper salty water makes this difficult.
Hurricane Idalia carved through Floridas Big Bend before charting a northeasterly course across the American Southeast.
A map showing the salinity of the sea surface (the greener, the more saline) and the path of Hurricane Idalia, color-coded to show its category.Image: Lauren Dauphin, using sea surface salinity data courtesy of JPL and the SMAP Science Team and the Multiscale Ultrahigh Resolution (MUR) project
The storm shaped up to be thecostliestof 2023, tallying a whopping $3.6 billion in damages.
The storm departed over the Atlantic on August 31 after cutting across Georgia and the South Carolina coast.
As ocean temperaturescontinue to break recordsfor warmth, we should expect more extreme and rapidly evolving hurricanes.
A map showing the salinity of the sea surface (the greener, the more saline) and the path of Hurricane Idalia, color-coded to show its category. Image: Lauren Dauphin, using sea surface salinity data courtesy of JPL and the SMAP Science Team and the Multiscale Ultrahigh Resolution (MUR) project
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