The Sensitivity of Tropical Cyclone Activity to Off-Equatorial Thermal Forcing in Aquaplanet Simulations

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2286-2302

  Ballinger, Andrew P ^a   Merlis, Timothy M ^b   Held, Isaac M ^a,c   Zhao, Ming ^c,d  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

General circulation models; Numerical analysis modeling; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; HURRICANES; STORMS; SURFACE WATERS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TROPICS;

ACCUMULATED CYCLONE ENERGIES; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS/MODELING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL CYCLONE ACTIVITY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

EID: 84943426809     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-14-0284.1     Document Type: Article

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