Impact of strong ENSO on regional tropical cyclone activity in a high-resolution climate model in the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 2375-2394

  Krishnamurthy, Lakshmi ^a,b   Vecchi, Gabriel A ^a,c   Msadek, Rym ^a,b   Murakami, Hiroyuki ^a,b   Wittenberg, Andrew ^a   Zeng, Fanrong ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atm Ocean Structure Phenomena; Circulation dynamics; Climate models; ENSO; Models and modeling; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; HURRICANES; NICKEL; OCEANOGRAPHY; STORMS; TROPICS;

EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC; ENSO; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION CLIMATE MODEL; QUASI-LINEAR RESPONSE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL CYCLONE ACTIVITY; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84959572010     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0468.1     Document Type: Article

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