Characteristics of tropical cyclones in high-resolution models in the present climate

Shaevitz, D. A., Camargo, S. J., Sobel, A. H., Jonas, J. A., Kim, D., Kumar, A., LaRow, T. E., Lim, Y.-K., Murakami, H., Reed, K. A., Roberts, M. J., Scoccimarro, E., Vidale, P. L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1800-8460, Wang, H., Wehner, M. F., Zhao, M. and Henderson, N. (2014) Characteristics of tropical cyclones in high-resolution models in the present climate. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 6 (4). pp. 1154-1172. ISSN 1942-2466 doi: 10.1002/2014MS000372

Abstract/Summary

The global characteristics of tropical cyclones (TCs) simulated by several climate models are analyzed and compared with observations. The global climate models were forced by the same sea surface temperature (SST) fields in two types of experiments, using climatological SST and interannually varying SST. TC tracks and intensities are derived from each model's output fields by the group who ran that model, using their own preferred tracking scheme; the study considers the combination of model and tracking scheme as a single modeling system, and compares the properties derived from the different systems. Overall, the observed geographic distribution of global TC frequency was reasonably well reproduced. As expected, with the exception of one model, intensities of the simulated TC were lower than in observations, to a degree that varies considerably across models.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/38624
Item Type	Article
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > NCAS
Uncontrolled Keywords	tropical cyclones;global climate models
Publisher	American Geophysical Union
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