Future changes in structures of extremely intense tropical cyclones using a 2-km mesh nonhydrostatic model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 9986-10005

  Kanada, Sachie ^a   Wada, Akiyoshi ^a   Sugi, Masato ^b  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Climate change; Cloud resolving models; Hurricanes typhoons; Nonhydrostatic models; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; HURRICANES/TYPHOONS; NONHYDROSTATIC MODEL; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TROPICAL CYCLONE;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING;

HURRICANES;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; HURRICANE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TYPHOON;

EID: 84890206668     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00477.1     Document Type: Article

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