Simulation and prediction of category 4 and 5 hurricanes in the high-resolution GFDL HiFLOR coupled climate model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 23, 2015, Pages 9058-9079

  Murakami, Hiroyuki ^a   Vecchi, Gabriel A ^a   Underwood, Seth ^b   Delworth, Thomas L ^a   Wittenberg, Andrew T ^a   Anderson, Whit G ^a   Chen, Jan Huey ^a   Gudgel, Richard G ^a   Harris, Lucas M ^a   Lin, Shian Jiann ^a   Zeng, Fanrong ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atm Ocean Structure Phenomena; Climate models; Climate prediction; Forecasting; Hindcasts; Models and modeling; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; FORECASTING; HURRICANES; MESH GENERATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; STORMS; SURFACE WATERS;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS LABORATORIES; HINDCASTS; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; PREDICTION OF TROPICAL CYCLONE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEASONAL AND INTERANNUAL VARIATIONS; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; HINDCASTING; HURRICANE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84950121630     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0216.1     Document Type: Article

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