The sensitivity of hurricane frequency to ITCZ changes and radiatively forced warming in aquaplanet simulations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 4109-4114

  Merlis, Timothy M ^a,b   Zhao, Ming ^c   Held, Isaac M ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; hurricanes; tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; HURRICANE FREQUENCY; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LOWER BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; OCEAN HEAT FLUX; POLEWARD SHIFT; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; HURRICANES; OCEANOGRAPHY;

HEAT FLUX;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HEAT FLUX; HURRICANE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; RADIATIVE FORCING; SIMULATION;

EID: 84881120298     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50680     Document Type: Article

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