Beyond weather time-scale prediction for hurricane sandy and super typhoon haiyan in a global climate model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 524-535

  Xiang, Baoqiang ^a,b   Lin, Shian Jiann ^a   Zhao, Ming ^a,b   Zhang, Shaoqing ^a   Vecchi, Gabriel ^a   Li, Tim ^c   Jiang, Xianan ^d   Harris, Lucas ^a   Chen, Jan Huey ^a,b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d Los Angeles   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; FORECASTING; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ACCURATE PREDICTION; COUPLED MODELING; EXTENDED RANGE; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS LABORATORIES; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; TROPICAL CYCLOGENESIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

HURRICANES;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CYCLOGENESIS; EASTERLY WAVE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HURRICANE SANDY 2012; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; TYPHOON HAIYAN 2013; WAVE PROPAGATION;

PHILIPPINES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84928911384     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-14-00227.1     Document Type: Article

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