Prominent influence of salinity on hurricane rapid intensification

Karthik Balaguru, PNNL, Marine Sciences Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States, Gregory R Foltz, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL, United States, L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Wenwei Xu, PNNL, Seattle, WA, United States, John Kaplan, AOML/NOAA, United States, Nicolas Reul, IFREMER, Plouzané, France and Bertrand Chapron, IFREMER, Univ. Brest, CNRS, IRD, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale, Brest, France