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How Well Do Global Climate Models Simulate the Variability of Atlantic Tropical Cyclones Associated with ENSO?

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Wang, Hui; Long, Lindsey; Kumar, Arun; Wang, Wanqiu; Schemm, Jae-Kyung E.; Zhao, Ming; Vecchi, Gabriel A.; Larow, Timothy E.; Lim, Young-Kwon; Schubert, Siegfried D.; Shaevitz, Daniel A.; Camargo, Suzana J.; Henderson, Naomi; Kim, Daehyun; Jonas, Jeffrey A.; Walsh, Kevin J. E.

Issue Date
2014-08
Publisher
American Meteorological Society
Citation
Journal of Climate, Vol.27 No.15, pp.5673-5692
Abstract
The variability of Atlantic tropical cyclones (TCs) associated with El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in model simulations is assessed and compared with observations. The model experiments are 28-yr simulations forced with the observed sea surface temperature from 1982 to 2009. The simulations were coordinated by the U.S. Climate Variability and Predictability Research Program (CLIVAR) Hurricane Working Group and conducted with five global climate models (GCMs) with a total of 16 ensemble members. The model performance is evaluated based on both individual model ensemble means and multimodel ensemble mean. The latter has the highest anomaly correlation (0.86) for the interannual variability of TCs. Previous observational studies show a strong association between ENSO and Atlantic TC activity, as well as distinctions during eastern Pacific (EP) and central Pacific (CP) El Nino events. The analysis of track density and TC origin indicates that each model has different mean biases. Overall, the GCMs simulate the variability of Atlantic TCs well with weaker activity during EP El Nino and stronger activity during La Nina. For CP El Nino, there is a slight increase in the number of TCs as compared with EP El Nino. However, the spatial distribution of track density and TC origin is less consistent among the models. Particularly, there is no indication of increasing TC activity over the U.S. southeast coastal region during CP El Nino as in observations. The difference between the models and observations is likely due to the bias of the models in response to the shift of tropical heating associated with CP El Nino, as well as the model bias in the mean circulation.
ISSN
0894-8755
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/10371/201000
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00625.1
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