Tropical climatology

A QuikSCAT climatology of tropical cyclone size

A QuikSCAT climatology of tropical cyclone size. Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. [1] QuikSCAT data of near‐surface wind vectors for the years 1999–...

A Climatology of the Tropical Tropopause Layer

The tropical tropopause layer (TTL) is a transition region between the troposphere and the stratosphere. In this study the vertical extent of the TTL is diagnosed from radiosonde and ozonesonde profiles in the tropics and a climatology of this layer is presented. The radiative balance in the TTL is also characterized. The TTL is locally defined as extending from the level of the lapse rate mini...

Autoregressive Modeling for Tropical Cyclone Intensity Climatology

An autoregressive model is developed to simulate the climatological distribution of global tropical cyclone (TC) intensity. The model consists of two components: a regression-based deterministic component that advances the TC intensity in time and depends on the storm state and surrounding large-scale environment and a stochastic forcing. Potential intensity, deep-layer mean vertical shear, and...

01 Southern Hemisphere Tropical Cyclone Climatology

Coupled Processes and the Tropical Climatology. Part III: Instabilities of the Fully Coupled Climatology*

Coupled processes between the equatorial ocean and atmosphere control the spatial structure of the annualmean state in the Pacific region, in particular the warm pool–cold tongue structure. At the same time, coupled processes are known to be responsible for the variability about this mean state, in particular the El Niño–Southern Oscillation phenomenon. In this paper, the connection between bot...