Influence of Tropical Tropopause Layer Cooling on Atlantic Hurricane Activity
By Kerry A. Emanuel, S. Solomon, D. Folini, S. Davis, C. Cagnazzo. 2013
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AbstractVirtually all metrics of Atlantic tropical cyclone activity show substantial increases over the past two decades. It is argued here that cooling near the tropical tropopause and the associated decrease in tropical cyclone outflow temperature contributed to the observed increase in tropical cyclone potential intensity over this period. Quantitative uncertainties in the magnitude of the cooling are important, but a broad range of observations supports some cooling. Downscalings of the output of atmospheric general circulation models (AGCMs) that are driven by observed sea surface temperatures and sea ice cover produce little if any increase in Atlantic tropical cyclone metrics over the past two decades, even though observed variability before roughly 1970 is well simulated by some of the models. Part of this shortcoming is traced to the failure of the AGCMs examined to reproduce the observed cooling of the lower stratosphere and tropical tropopause layer (TTL) over the past few decades. The authors ...
Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change
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- Stratospheric control of the Madden-Julian oscillation. (2017, background): “Note that even without cirrus clouds, the cold tropopause itself could provide a favorable environment for organized deep convection (e.g., Emanuel et al. 2013).”