Response of ice and liquid water paths of tropical cyclones to global warming simulated by a global nonhydrostatic model with explicit cloud microphysics

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 9931-9945

  Yamada, Yohei ^a,b   Satoh, Masaki ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climate models; Climate variability; Cloud cover; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLOUD COVER; CUMULUS PARAMETERIZATION; FUTURE CLIMATE PROJECTIONS; HORIZONTAL DISTRIBUTION; NONHYDROSTATIC MODEL; RADIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

CLIMATE MODELS; EXPERIMENTS; GLOBAL WARMING; HURRICANES; ICE CONTROL; PHYSICS; TROPICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYCLOGENESIS; DATA SET; GLOBAL WARMING; ICE; OCEAN BASIN; STORM TRACK; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

EID: 84890216284     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00182.1     Document Type: Article

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