Hurricane Resources
Documents
- 2013 US CLIVAR Hurricane Workshop Report (Re-released March 2014)
- Report at the 2011 U.S. CLIVAR Summit
- Hurricane Working Group Prospectus
Relevant Links
WMO 7th International Workshop on Tropical cyclones (IWTC-VII)
Jim Elsner Hurricane Climate page
The HURDAT reanalysis: access to a commonly used dataset
IBTrACS web page access to a global dataset
Working Group Publications
Kevin J.E. Walsh, Suzana J. Camargo, Gabriel A. Vecchi, Anne Sophie Daloz, James Elsner, Kerry Emanuel, Michael Horn, Young-Kwon Lim, Malcolm Roberts, Christina Patricola, Enrico Scoccimarro, Adam H. Sobel, Michael Wehner, Ming Zhao, James P. Kossin, Tim LaRow, Kazuyoshi Oouchi, Siegfried Schubert, Hui Wang, Julio Bacmeister, Ping Chang, Fabrice Chauvin, Christiane Jablonowski, Arun Kumar, Hiroyuki Murakami, Tomoaki Ose, Kevin A. Reed, R Saravanan, Y. Yamada, Colin M. Zarzycki, Pier Luigi Vidale, Jeffrey A. Jonas and Naomi Henderson, Hurricanes and climate: The U.S. CLIVAR working group on hurricanes. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
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Suzana J. Camargo, Michael K. Tippett, Adam H. Sobel, Gabriel A. Vecchi, Ming Zhao, Testing the Performance of Tropical Cyclone Genesis Indices in Future Climates Using the HiRAM Model. Journal of Climate, Vol. 27, Iss. 24, pp. 9171–9196.
Anne S. Daloz, S. J. Camargo, J. P. Kossin, K. Emanuel, M. Horn, J.A. Jonas, D. Kim, T. LaRow, Y.-K. Lim, C.M. Patricola, M. Roberts, E. Scoccimarro, D. Shaevitz, P.L. Vidale, H. Wang, M. Wehner, M. Zhao, Cluster analysis of downscaled and explicitly simulated North Atlantic tropical cyclone tracks. Journal of Climate, early online release.
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James B. Elsner, Sarah E. Strazzo, Thomas H. Jagger, and Timothy LaRow, Sensitivity of Limiting Hurricane Intensity to SST in the Atlantic from Observations and GCMs. Journal of Climate, Vol. 26, Iss. 16, pp. 5949-5957.
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Michael Horn, Kevin Walsh, Ming Zhao, Suzana J. Camargo, Enrico Scoccimarro, Hiroyuki Murakami, Hui Wang, Andrew Ballinger, Arun Kumar, Daniel A. Shaevitz, Jeffrey A. Jonas, Kazuyoshi Oouchi, Tracking Scheme Dependence of Simulated Tropical Cyclone Response to Idealized Climate Simulations. Journal of Climate, Vol. 27, Iss. 24, pp. 9197–9213.
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Young-Kwon Lim, Siegfried D. Schubert, Oreste Reale, Myong-In Lee, Andrea M. Molod, Max J. Suarez, Sensitivity of Tropical Cyclones to Parameterized Convection in the NASA GEOS5 Model. Journal of Climate, early online release.
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Wei Mei, Shang-Ping Xie, Ming Zhao, Variability of Tropical Cyclone Track Density in the North Atlantic: Observations and High-Resolution Simulations. Journal of Climate, Vol. 27, Iss. 13, pp. 4781-4796.
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Wei Mei, Shang-Ping Xie, Ming Zhao, Yuqing Wang, Forced and Internal Variability of Tropical Cyclone Track Density in the Western North Pacific. Journal of Climate, Vol. 28, Iss. 1, pp. 143-167.
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Hiroyuki Murakami, Pang-Chi Hsu, Osamu Arakawa, Tim Li, Influence of Model Biases on Projected Future Changes in Tropical Cyclone Frequency of Occurrence. Journal of Climate, Vol. 27, Iss. 5, pp. 2159-2181.
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Christina M. Patricola, R. Saravanan, Ping Chang, The Impact of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation and Atlantic Meridional Mode on Seasonal Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Activity. Journal of Climate, Vol. 27, Iss. 14, pp. 5311-5328.
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Malcolm J. Roberts, Pier Luigi Vidale, Matthew S. Mizielinski, Marie-Estelle Demory, Reinhard Schiemann, Jane Strachan, Kevin Hodges, Ray Bell, Joanne Camp, Tropical cyclones in the UPSCALE ensemble of high resolution global climate models. Journal of Climate, early online release.
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Enrico Scoccimarro, Silvio Gualdi, Gabriele Villarini, Gabriel A. Vecchi, Ming Zhao, Kevin Walsh, Antonio Navarra, Intense Precipitation Events Associated with Landfalling Tropical Cyclones in Response to a Warmer Climate and Increased CO2. Journal of Climate, Vol. 27, Iss. 12, pp. 4642-4654.
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Daniel A. Shaevitz, Suzana J. Camargo, Adam H. Sobel, Jeffrey A. Jonas, Daehyun Kim, Arun Kumar, Timothy E. LaRow, Young-Kwon Lim, Hiroyuki Murakami, Kevin A. Reed, Malcolm J. Roberts, Enrico Scoccimarro, Pier Luigi Vidale, Hui Wang, Michael F. Wehner, Ming Zhao and Naomi Henderson, Characteristics of tropical cyclones in high-resolution models in the present climate. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Vol. 06, pp. 1-19.
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Sarah Strazzo, James B. Elsner, Timothy LaRow, Daniel J. Halperin, Ming Zhao, Observed versus GCM-Generated Local Tropical Cyclone Frequency: Comparisons Using a Spatial Lattice. Journal of Climate, Vol. 26, No. 21, p. 8257-8268.
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Gabriele Villarini, David A. Lavers, Enrico Scoccimarro, Ming Zhao, Michael F. Wehner, Gabriel A. Vecchi, Thomas R. Knutson, Kevin A. Reed, Sensitivity of Tropical Cyclone Rainfall to Idealized Global-Scale Forcings. Journal of Climate, Vol. 27, Iss. 12, pp. 4622-4641.
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Hui Wang, Lindsey Long, Arun Kumar, Wanqiu Wang, Jae-Kyung E. Schemm, Ming Zhao, Gabriel A. Vecchi, Timorhy E. LaRow, Young-Kwon Lim, Siegfried D. Schubert, Daniel A. Shaevitz, Suzana J. Camargo, Naomi Henderson, Daehyun Kim, Jeffrey A. Jonas, Kevin J. E. Walsh, How Well Do Global Climate Models Simulate the Variability of Atlantic Tropical Cyclones Associated with ENSO? Journal of Climate, Vol. 27, Iss. 15, pp. 5673-5692.
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Yohei Yamada, Masaki Satoh, Response of Ice and Liquid Water Paths of Tropical Cyclones to Global Warming Simulated by a Global Nonhydrostatic Model with Explicit Cloud Microphysics. Journal of Climate, Vol. 26, Iss. 24, pp. 9931-9945.
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