Seasonal forecasts of major hurricanes and landfalling tropical cyclones using a high-resolution GFDL coupled climate model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 22, 2016, Pages 7977-7989

  Murakami, Hiroyuki ^a,b   Vecchi, Gabriel A ^a,b   Villarini, Gabriele ^c   Delworth, Thomas L ^a,b   Gudgel, Richard ^a   Underwood, Seth ^a   Yang, Xiaosong ^a,d   Zhang, Wei ^a,b,c   Lin, Shian Jiann ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled models; Hurricanes typhoons; Seasonal forecasting; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; HURRICANES; STORMS; TROPICS; WIND;

COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; COUPLED MODELS; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS LABORATORIES; HURRICANES/TYPHOONS; LANDFALLING TROPICAL CYCLONES; SEASONAL FORECASTING; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 84994106619     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0233.1     Document Type: Article

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