Journal article

An assessment of multimodel simulations for the variability of Western North Pacific tropical cyclones and its association with ENSO

R Han, H Wang, ZZ Hu, A Kumar, W Li, LN Long, JKE Schemm, P Peng, W Wang, D Si, X Jia, M Zhao, GA Vecchi, TE LaRow, YK Lim, SD Schubert, SJ Camargo, N Henderson, JA Jonas, KJE Walsh

Journal of Climate | AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC | Published : 2016

Abstract

An assessment of simulations of the interannual variability of tropical cyclones (TCs) over the western North Pacific (WNP) and its association with El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), as well as a subsequent diagnosis for possible causes of model biases generated from simulated large-scale climate conditions, are documented in the paper. The model experiments are carried out by the Hurricane Work Group under the U.S. Climate Variability and Predictability Research Program (CLIVAR) using five global climate models (GCMs) with a total of 16 ensemble members forced by the observed sea surface temperature and spanning the 28-yr period from 1982 to 2009. The results show GISS and GFDL model ens..

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Awarded by National Science Foundation


Funding Acknowledgements

Most of this work was finished during a visit by Dr. Han to the Climate Prediction Center, NCEP/NWS/NOAA. This research was jointly supported by the National Basic Research Program of China under Grants 2013CB430203 and 2012CB417205, Key project of National Nature Science Foundation of China under Grant 91437215, the China Meteorological Special Program under Grants GYHY201506013, GYHY201406022, and GYHY201306028, the National Nature Science Foundation of China under Grant 41575090, and the Major International (Regional) Joint Research Project of National Science Foundation of China (41520104008). The authors thank three anonymous reviewers and the editor for their insightful and constructive comments and suggestions.