Improved simulation of tropical cyclone responses to ENSO in the western north pacific in the high-resolution GFDL HiFLOR coupled climate model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1391-1415

  Zhang, Wei ^a,b,c   Vecchi, Gabriel A ^a,b   Murakami, Hiroyuki ^a,b   Delworth, Thomas ^a,b   Wittenberg, Andrew T ^a   Rosati, Anthony ^a   Underwood, Seth ^d   Anderson, Whit ^a   Harris, Lucas ^a   Gudgel, Richard ^a   Lin, Shian Jiann ^a   Villarini, Gabriele ^e   Chen, Jan Huey ^a,b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d Engility Corporation   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; HURRICANES; NICKEL; STORMS; SURFACE WATERS;

COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS LABORATORIES; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEASONAL FORECASTING; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; LA NINA; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84959500769     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0475.1     Document Type: Article

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