Hurricanes in an aquaplanet world: Implications of the impacts of external forcing and model horizontal resolution

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 134-145

  Li, Fuyu ^a   Collins, William D ^a,b   Wehner, Michael F ^a   Leung, L Ruby ^c  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

aquaplanet; climate model; horizontal resolution; hurricane; tropical storm

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; HURRICANES; SEA LEVEL; STORMS;

AQUAPLANET; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HIGH-RESOLUTION CLIMATE MODELS; HIGH-RESOLUTION MODELS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; REDUCED SENSITIVITY; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; TROPICAL STORMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; HURRICANE EVENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; RESOLUTION; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE;

EID: 84880807523     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jame.20020     Document Type: Article

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