Effects of tropical cyclones on ocean heat transport in a high-resolution coupled general circulation model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 4368-4384

  Scoccimarro, Enrico ^a   Gualdi, Silvio ^a,b   Bellucci, Alessio ^b   Sanna, Antonella ^b   Fogli, Pier Giuseppe ^b   Manzini, Elisa ^a,b,c   Vichi, Marcello ^a,b   Oddo, Paolo ^a   Navarra, Antonio ^a,b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate models; Ocean models; Transport; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

BASIC MECHANISM; COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; MOMENTUM FLUX; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OCEAN HEAT TRANSPORT; OCEAN MODELS; OCEAN SURFACES; SHORT TIME SCALE; SURFACE OCEAN; TRADE WINDS; TRANSPORT; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HEAT TRANSFER; HURRICANES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; STORMS; TROPICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERE-ICE-OCEAN SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; HEAT FLUX; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 80052618190     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI4104.1     Document Type: Article

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