Future changes in tropical cyclone activity projected by multi-physics and multi-SST ensemble experiments using the 60-km-mesh MRI-AGCM

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 39, Issue 9-10, 2012, Pages 2569-2584

  Murakami, Hiroyuki ^a,b   Mizuta, Ryo ^c   Shindo, Eiki ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ensemble experiments; Future projections; Global warming; High resolution model; Tropical cyclones; Uncertainties

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CYCLOGENESIS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GLOBAL WARMING; OCEAN BASIN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TROPICAL CYCLONE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (SOUTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 84868097828     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1223-x     Document Type: Article

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