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Different Climatological Characteristics, Inner-Core Structures, and Intensification Processes of Simulated Intense Tropical Cyclones between 20-km Global and

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JOURNAL OF CLIMATE
Volume 30, Issue 5, Pages 1583-1603

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AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0093.1

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  1. Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan under the framework of the Sousei Program
  2. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI [26400466, 15K05292]
  3. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26400466, 15K05292] Funding Source: KAKEN

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Climatological characteristics of simulated intense tropical cyclones (TCs) in the western North Pacific were explored with a 20-km-mesh atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM20) and a 5-km-mesh regional atmospheric nonhydrostatic model (ANHM5). From the AGCM20 climate runs, 34 intense TCs with a minimum central pressure (MCP) less than or equal to 900 hPa were sampled. Downscaling experiments were conducted with the ANHM5 for each intense TC simulated by the AGCM20. Only 23 developed into TCs with MCP <= 900 hPa. Most of the best-track TCs with an MCP <= 900 hPa underwent rapid intensification (RI) and attained maximum intensities south of 25(omicron)N. The AGCM20 simulated a similar number of intense TCs as the best-track datasets. However, the intense AGCM20 TCs tended to intensify longer and more gradually; only half of them underwent RI. The prolonged gradual intensification resulted in significant northward shifts of the location of maximum intensity compared with the location derived from two best-track datasets. The inner-core structure of AGCM20 TCs exhibited weak and shallow eyewall updrafts with maxima below an altitude of 6 km, while downscaling experiments revealed that most of the intense ANHM5 TCs underwent RI with deep and intense eyewall updrafts and attained their maximum intensity at lower latitudes. The altitudes of updraft maxima simulated by the AGCM20 descended rapidly during the phase of greatest intensification as midlevel warming markedly developed. The change in major processes responsible for precipitation in AGCM20 TCs before and after maximum intensification suggests close relationships between the large-scale cloud scheme and midlevel warming and prolonged gradual intensification.

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