Hurricane Working Group
The US CLIVAR Hurricane Working Group was formed in January of 2011 to coordinate efforts to produce a set of model experiments designed to improve understanding of the variability of tropical cyclone formation in climate models. The WG concluded their activities in 2014.
The scientific objectives of the Hurricane WG include:
- an improved understanding of interannual variability and trends in the tropical cyclone activity from the beginning of the 20th century to the present
- quantifying changes in the characteristics of tropical cyclones under a warming climate.
Workshop Report Re-released March 2014: "US CLIVAR Hurricane Workshop Report"
| Gabriel Vecchi, co-chair | NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory |
| Suzana Camargo, co-chair | Columbia University/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory |
| Kevin Walsh, co-chair | University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Lennart Bengtsson | University of Reading, UK |
| James Elsner | Florida State University |
| Kerry Emanuel | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| In-Sik Kang | Seoul National University, Korea |
| Jim Kossin | NOAA National Climatic Data Center |
| Tim LaRow | Florida State University |
| Kazuyoshi Oouchi | Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology |
| Siegfried Schubert | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Adam Sobel | Columbia University |
| Enrico Scoccimarro | INGV-CMCC, Italy |
| Gabriele Villarini | University of Iowa |
| Hui Wang | NOAA NCEP |
| Ming Zhao | NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory |
| Additional Contributing Members | |
| Julio Bacmeister | NCAR |
| Ping Chang | Texas A&M University |
| Fabrice Chauvin | CNRM, France |
| Monika Esch | MPI, Germany |
| Christine Jablonowsky | University of Michigan |
| Young-Kwon Lim | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Hiroyuki Murakami | MRI, Japan |
| Tomoaki Ose | MRI, Japan |
| Christina Patricola | Texas A&M University |
| Kevin Reed | University of Michigan |
| Malcolm Roberts | Met Office, UK |
| R. Saravanan | Texas A&M University |
| Pier Luigi Vidale | University of Reading, UK |
| Michael Wehner | Lawrence Berkeley National Lab |
Terms of Reference
- Define common experiments for model simulations by participating model groups
- Supply common data sets and tropical cyclone metrics for those experiments
- Coordinate the evaluation and reporting of common experiments and the storage of model output
- Organize a series of workshops to present and discuss the results