Assessing Future Tropical Cyclone Risk Using Downscaled 1 CMIP6 Projections
Boniface Fosu, Adam H. Sobel, Suzana J. Camargo, Michael K. Tippett, Mona Hemmati, Steven G. Bowen, Nadia Bloemendaal
Abstract
The authors employ the Columbia Hazard model (CHAZ) to characterise future tropical cyclone (TC) activity under the shared socioeconomic pathways (SSP) SSP2-4.5, SSP3-7.0, and SSP5-8.5 by downscaling 12 models that participated in the Coupled Climate Model Intercomparison Project’s sixth generation (CMIP6), focusing on the Western North Pacific (WNP) and North Atlantic (ATL) basins.
Topics & Concepts
Tropical cycloneClimatologyTropical cyclone forecast modelEnvironmental scienceMeteorologyGeographyGeologyTropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research