期刊
JOURNAL OF CLIMATE
卷 26, 期 24, 页码 9946-9959出版社
AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00010.1
关键词
Cyclogenesis; cyclolysis; Climate change; Climate models
资金
- Pacific Australia Climate Change Science and Adaptation Planning program (PACCSAP) project
- AusAID
Changes in tropical cyclone (TC) frequency under anthropogenic climate change are examined for 13 global models from phase 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5), using the Okubo-Weiss-Zeta parameter (OWZP) TC-detection method developed by the authors in earlier papers. The method detects large-scale conditions within which TCs form. It was developed and tuned in atmospheric reanalysis data and then applied without change to the climate models to ensure model and detector independence. Changes in TC frequency are determined by comparing TC detections in the CMIP5 historical runs (1970-2000) with high emission scenario (representative concentration pathway 8.5) future runs (2070-2100). A number of the models project increases in frequency of higher-latitude tropical cyclones in the late twenty-first century. Inspection reveals that these high-latitude systems were subtropical in origin and are thus eliminated from the analysis using an objective classification technique. TC detections in 8 of the 13 models reproduce observed TC formation numbers and geographic distributions reasonably well, with annual numbers within +/- 50% of observations. TC detections in the remaining five models are particularly low in number (10%-28% of observed). The eight models with a reasonable TC climatology all project decreases in global TC frequency varying between 7% and 28%. Large intermodel and interbasin variations in magnitude and sign are present, with the greatest variations in the Northern Hemisphere basins. These results are consistent with results from earlier-generation climate models and thus confirm the robustness of coupled model projections of globally reduced TC frequency.
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