Journal article
Intense precipitation events associated with landfalling tropical cyclones in response to a warmer climate and increased CO2
E Scoccimarro, S Gualdi, G Villarini, GA Vecchi, M Zhao, K Walsh, A Navarra
Journal of Climate | Published : 2014
Abstract
In this work the authors investigate possible changes in the intensity of rainfall events associated with tropical cyclones (TCs) under idealized forcing scenarios, including a uniformly warmer climate, with a special focus on landfalling storms. A new set of experiments designed within the U.S. Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR) Hurricane Working Group allows disentangling the relative role of changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide from that played by sea surface temperature (SST) in changing the amount of precipitation associated with TCs in a warmer world. Compared to the present-day simulation, an increase in TC precipitation was found under the scenarios involving SST increa..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work was carried out as part of a Hurricane and Climate Working Group activity supported by the U.S. CLIVAR. We acknowledge the support provided by Naomi Henderson, who downloaded and organized the data at the Lamont data library. The research leading to these results has received funding from the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research and the Italian Ministry of Environment, Land and Sea under the GEMINA project. Moreover this material is based in part upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant AGS-1262099 (Gabriele Villarini and Gabriel A. Vecchi).