Uncertainties and Limitations in Simulating Tropical Cyclones

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Gebonden, 78 blz. | Engels
Springer Berlin Heidelberg | 2012e druk, 2012
ISBN13: 9783642250286
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The thesis work was in two major parts: development and testing of a new approach to detecting and
tracking tropical cyclones in climate models; and application of an extreme value statistical approach to
enable assessment of changes in weather extremes from climate models.
The tracking algorithm applied a creative phase-space approach to differentiate between modeled tropical
cyclones and their mid-latitude cousins. A feature here was the careful attention to sensitivity to choice of
selection parameters, which is considerable. The major finding was that the changes over time were
relatively insensitive to these details. This new approach will improve and add confidence to future
assessments of climate impacts on hurricanes.
The extremes approach utilized the Generalized Pareto Distribution (one of the standard approaches to
statistics of extremes) applied to present and future hurricane distributions as modeled by a regional
climate model, then applied the changes to current observations to extract the changes in the extremes.
Since climate models cannot resolve these extremes directly, this provides an excellent method of
determining weather extremes in general. This is of considerable societal importance as we are most
vulnerable to such extremes and knowledge of their changes enables improved planning and adaptation
strategies.

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ISBN13:9783642250286
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Aantal pagina's:78
Uitgever:Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Druk:2012

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Introduction.- Tropical cyclone detection and tracking method.- Simulated tropical cyclone climatology in the tropical channel experiment.- North Atlantic hurricane climate change experiment.- Statistical modeling of tropical cyclone intensity.- Concluding remarks.

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