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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ESSDD</journal-id>
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<journal-title>Earth System Science Data Discussions</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ESSDD</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">1866-3591</issn>
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<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/essd-2026-300</article-id>
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<article-title>High-resolution dataset of 2024 typhoons in the northern South China Sea captured by a collaborative network of underwater gliders and autonomous underwater vehicles</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Qi</surname>
<given-names>Jiawei</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8379-3293</ext-link>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Liu</surname>
<given-names>Lei</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Liu</surname>
<given-names>Wenhu</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0009-0009-1519-8113</ext-link>
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<sup>4</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Fei</surname>
<given-names>Jianfang</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Yu</surname>
<given-names>Jiancheng</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>5</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Ma</surname>
<given-names>Zhanhong</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>2</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Chen</surname>
<given-names>Zhentao</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>1</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Mao</surname>
<given-names>Huabin</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>6</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Tan</surname>
<given-names>Zhiduo</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>5</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Huang</surname>
<given-names>Xiaogang</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>1</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Cheng</surname>
<given-names>Xiaoping</given-names>
</name>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>College of Meteorology and Oceanography, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Key Laboratory of High Impact Weather (Special), China Meteorological Administration, Changsha, China</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff3">
<label>3</label>
<addr-line>School of Marine Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff4">
<label>4</label>
<addr-line>Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Collaborative Innovation Center for the Marine Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff5">
<label>5</label>
<addr-line>Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff6">
<label>6</label>
<addr-line>State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>20</day>
<month>05</month>
<year>2026</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>41</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Jiawei Qi et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
<license license-type="open-access">
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<p>Typhoon-induced ocean responses are not only a key mechanism for regulating global heat transport and maintaining the energy balance of the climate system, but also the core physical processes underlying the intense exchange of matter and energy at the air-sea interface under extreme dynamic forcing. However, traditional passive sampling methods are limited by their discontinuous and sparse spatiotemporal coverage, making it difficult to capture the complete three-dimensional structure and rapid evolution of upper-ocean responses during the critical window of typhoon passage. Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and Underwater Gliders (UGs), with their active tracking and sampling capabilities, can effectively resolve the spatiotemporal evolution of these highly dynamic processes. This paper presents a high-resolution temperature-salinity dataset covering the passage of seven typhoons in the South China Sea during 2024. Constructed from collaborative observations by 62 UGs and 2 AUVs, the dataset achieves an average spatial resolution of 2.4&amp;ndash;3.8 km and an average temporal resolution of 3.5&amp;ndash;4.3 h (99.7% of the samples had resolutions within 8.4 km and 6.7 h, respectively ). The dataset successfully captures the complex upper-ocean temperature and salinity responses under typhoon forcing, including cooling and salinity increase due to pumping, cooling and salinity decrease triggered by freshwater caps formed by precipitation, cooling and salinity decrease caused by background warm eddies, and significant near inertial oscillations in temperature and salinity. This dataset holds significant potential for in-depth investigation of typhoon-ocean coupling mechanisms and for improving the accuracy of numerical model forecasts.</p>
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<funding-source>National Natural Science Foundation of China</funding-source>
<award-id>grant no. 42192552</award-id>
<award-id>grant no. 42330610</award-id>
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<funding-source>Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province</funding-source>
<award-id>grant no. 2025JJ30014</award-id>
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