The ocean mesoscale eddy (OME) is an important ocean phenomenon and covers 20%–30% of the ocean area (
Chaigneau et al., 2009;
Chelton et al., 2011;
Cheng et al., 2014;
Lumpkin, 2016). The OME comprises a particular circulation system that modulates the subsurface thermocline, influencing ocean water temperature at the sea surface and also in the subsurface layers (
Yang et al., 2013,
2015;
Dong et al., 2014). In an investigation of ocean water temperature affected by warm OMEs (WOMEs) using the Argo dataset (
Dong et al., 2014), the warm anomaly caused by WOMEs reached 1.4°C at the surface and 2.5°C at a depth of 370 m, with which the profiles of warm anomaly caused by WOMEs in the northwestern subtropical Pacific Ocean and southeastern tropical Indian Ocean were similar (
Yang et al., 2013,
2015). Specific warm ocean conditions lead WOMEs to play a vital role in air–sea interactions (
Anandh et al., 2020;
Frenger et al., 2013;
Jaimes et al., 2016), and are important in TC development (
Shay, 2010). Moreover, the regions in which WOMEs have been observed are consistent with those of TCs, and most of the recorded TCs have encountered WOMEs (
Ma et al., 2017). Under these circumstances, issues regarding the role of WOMEs on the track of TCs in TC development have been frequently studied, such as in Hurricane Opal (
Hong et al., 2000;
Shay et al., 2000), Hurricane Issac (
Jaimes and Shay, 2015), Hurricane Katrina (
Wu et al., 2007), Typhoon Maemi (
Lin et al., 2005), and Typhoon Rammasun (
Sun et al., 2016). These studies have focused on TC intensification and the strong TC intensity induced by a WOME located along the TC track. Both numerical experiments and observations have suggested that the warm anomalies of the upper ocean caused by WOMEs could reduce TC-induced SST cooling by limiting the negative feedback, and this warmer SST during the TC period would then enhance the heat fluxes transported to the TC (
Wu et al., 2007;
Jaimes et al., 2016), leading to enhanced TC intensity. However, few studies have considered the effect of WOME on TC intensity changes for those WOMEs positioned far away from the TC center. Based on previous studies (
Frenger et al., 2013;
Sun et al., 2016), the warm water in a WOME induced increased heat fluxes and a low local atmospheric pressure anomaly, which could change the atmospheric circulation of the TC. Through idealized experiments, in which a ring-shaped positive SST anomaly (SSTA) was added and centered on the TC center,
Sun et al. (2014) found that the positive SSTA enhanced the TC within an effective radius and weakened it outside of that radius. This effect was explained by changes in atmospheric conditions (
Sun et al., 2014). Although the ring-shaped SSTA did not reflect WOME accurately, both in shape and range, the study by
Sun et al. (2014) was valuable in terms of how to investigate how TC intensity would change in response to WOME at varying locations with respect to the TC center. According to these results, it may be expected that a WOME in an outer area may have a different effect on TC intensity compared with a WOME located on the TC track. However, no studies have been conducted on this topic to our knowledge. Moreover, identification of the ranges in TC intensity changes on the spatial distribution of the WOME and the internal mechanisms remain unclear, and thus warrant further investigation.