Intensification of Hurricane Idalia by a river plume in the eastern Gulf of Mexico

Hurricane Idalia formed on 26 August 2023 and three days later rapidly intensified from a Category 1 to Category 4 strength storm in less than 24 h over the west Florida shelf. On August 30, it made landfall along Florida’s Big Bend area as a Category 3 hurricane. Strikingly, despite Idalia’s modera...

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Published in:	Environmental Research Letters
Main Authors:	Jing Shi, Chuanmin Hu, Jennifer Cannizzaro, Brian Barnes, Yingjun Zhang, Chad Lembke, Matthieu Le Henaff
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IOP Publishing 2025-01-01
Subjects:	Hurricane Idalia intensification river plume salinity ocean color Gulf of Mexico
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adad8a