Decreasing trend of tropical cyclone frequency in 228-year high-resolution AGCM simulations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 19, 2012, Pages

  Sugi, Masato ^a,b   Yoshimura, Jun ^b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; GREENHOUSE GASES; HURRICANES;

ATMOSPHERE MODELS; ENSEMBLE SIMULATION; GRID SIZE; HIGH RESOLUTION; LONG-TERM VARIATIONS; MULTIDECADAL VARIATIONS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; RADIATIVE COOLING; RATE OF INCREASE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SPECIFIC HUMIDITY; STATIC STABILITY; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; COOLING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HUMIDITY; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MASS TRANSFER; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; RADIATIVE FORCING; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

EID: 84867563771     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053360     Document Type: Article

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