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contributor authorRoberts, Malcolm J.
contributor authorVidale, Pier Luigi
contributor authorMizielinski, Matthew S.
contributor authorDemory, Marie-Estelle
contributor authorSchiemann, Reinhard
contributor authorStrachan, Jane
contributor authorHodges, Kevin
contributor authorBell, Ray
contributor authorCamp, Joanne
date accessioned2017-06-09T17:10:08Z
date available2017-06-09T17:10:08Z
date copyright2015/01/01
date issued2014
identifier issn0894-8755
identifier otherams-80473.pdf
identifier urihttp://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4223369
description abstracthe U.K. on Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) Weather-Resolving Simulations of Climate for Global Environmental Risk (UPSCALE) project, using PRACE resources, constructed and ran an ensemble of atmosphere-only global climate model simulations, using the Met Office Unified Model Global Atmosphere 3 (GA3) configuration. Each simulation is 27 years in length for both the present climate and an end-of-century future climate, at resolutions of N96 (130 km), N216 (60 km), and N512 (25 km), in order to study the impact of model resolution on high-impact climate features such as tropical cyclones. Increased model resolution is found to improve the simulated frequency of explicitly tracked tropical cyclones, and correlations of interannual variability in the North Atlantic and northwestern Pacific lie between 0.6 and 0.75. Improvements in the deficit of genesis in the eastern North Atlantic as resolution increases appear to be related to the representation of African easterly waves and the African easterly jet. However, the intensity of the modeled tropical cyclones as measured by 10-m wind speed remains weak, and there is no indication of convergence over this range of resolutions. In the future climate ensemble, there is a reduction of 50% in the frequency of Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclones, whereas in the Northern Hemisphere there is a reduction in the North Atlantic and a shift in the Pacific with peak intensities becoming more common in the central Pacific. There is also a change in tropical cyclone intensities, with the future climate having fewer weak storms and proportionally more strong storms.
publisherAmerican Meteorological Society
titleTropical Cyclones in the UPSCALE Ensemble of High-Resolution Global Climate Models
typeJournal Paper
journal volume28
journal issue2
journal titleJournal of Climate
identifier doi10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00131.1
journal fristpage574
journal lastpage596
treeJournal of Climate:;2014:;volume( 028 ):;issue: 002
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