Simulated relationships between sea surface temperatures and tropical convection in climate models and their implications for tropical cyclone activity

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 7884-7895

  Evans, Jenni L ^a   Waters, Jeffrey J ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate models; Convection; Hurricanes typhoons; Sea surface temperature; Tropical cyclones; Tropics

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CO; CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION; COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; DEEP TROPICAL CONVECTION; FULLY-COUPLED; FUTURE CLIMATE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS LABORATORIES; GLOBAL TROPICS; METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES; OCEAN MODEL; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TROPICAL CONVECTION; TROPICAL CYCLOGENESIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL CYCLONE ACTIVITY; TROPICAL ZONES;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; HEAT CONVECTION; HURRICANE EFFECTS; TROPICAL ENGINEERING; TROPICS;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LONGWAVE RADIATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL REGION;

EID: 84869786873     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00392.1     Document Type: Article

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