The impact of future climate change on TC intensity and structure: A downscaling approach

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 4644-4661

  Hill, Kevin A ^a   Lackmann, Gary M ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; CONTROL SIMULATION; DOWN-SCALING; EMISSION SCENARIO; EMISSIONS SCENARIOS; FREEZING LEVELS; FUTURE CLIMATE; GRID-SPACINGS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HURRICANE INTENSITY; INTENSITY CHANGE; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; REANALYSIS; SEA SURFACES; SECONDARY CIRCULATION; THERMODYNAMIC ASPECTS; TROPICAL ATLANTIC; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENTS; VERTICAL WIND SHEAR; WARMING CLIMATE; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HURRICANES; STORMS; TROPICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOWNSCALING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERE; WARMING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 80053191097     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI3761.1     Document Type: Article

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