May 9, 2013
Response of tropical sea surface temperature, precipitation, and tropical cyclone‐related variables to changes in global and local forcing
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Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
- Estimates the equilibrium response of sea surface temperature (SST), precipitation, and several variables related to tropical cyclone (TC) activity to changes in both local and global forcing
- Finds that, in general, TC potential intensity and genesis potential vary much more rapidly with SST in response to varying surface wind speed than in response to other forcings
- Finds that local changes in TC potential intensity are highly correlated with local changes in SST, showing that relative SST is a good proxy for potential intensity when forcing is strictly local, but it cannot capture potentially important changes in potential intensity that arise from global‐scale changes in forcing