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Mediterranean warm-core cyclones in a warmer world

Authors :
Filippo Giorgi
Kevin Walsh
Erika Coppola
Source :
Climate Dynamics. 42:1053-1066
Publication Year :
2013
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2013.

Abstract

Regional climate model projections over the Mediterranean region are analysed for the presence of intense, warm-core lows that share some of the characteristics of tropical cyclones. The results indicate that the number of such systems decreases in a warmer world, particularly in winter. Comparison of the simulated numbers to changes in relevant climate diagnostics suggests that numbers decrease due to an increasingly hostile environment for storm formation, combined with a general poleward shift in the incidence of wintertime lows over western Europe.

Details

ISSN :
14320894 and 09307575
Volume :
42
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Climate Dynamics
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........e98d47deff4800f7702a46b593ba604f
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-013-1723-y