Some counterintuitive dependencies of tropical cyclone frequency on parameters in a GCM

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2272-2283

  Zhao, Ming ^a   Held, Isaac M ^b   Lin, Shian Jiann ^b  

^a GFDL/UCAR   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate models; Climatology; Convective parameterization; Cyclogenesis cyclolysis; General circulation models; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

CHANGING CLIMATE; CONVECTION PARAMETERIZATION; CYCLOGENESIS; FUTURE PROJECTIONS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS LABORATORIES; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; HORIZONTAL FLOWS; INCREMENTAL CHANGES; MEAN INTENSITY; MIXING RATES; NON-MONOTONIC RESPONSE; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PARAMETERIZED; SHARP INCREASE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TWO PARAMETER;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMPING; HURRICANES; MIXING; STORMS;

PARAMETERIZATION;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; CYCLOGENESIS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

EID: 84864839450     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-0238.1     Document Type: Article

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