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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGYCYCLONESFORMATION, TRIGGERS AND CONTROLKAZUYOSHI OOUCHIAND

HIRONORI FUDEYASUEDITORSNew York

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Cyclones : formation, triggers, and control / [edited by] Kazuyoshi Oouchi and Hironori
Fudeyasu.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-61942-976-5 (hardcover)
1. Cyclones. I. Oouchi, Kazuyoshi. II. Fudeyasu, Hironori.
QC941.C935 2011
551.55'13--dc23
2012001049

Published by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. † New YorkCONTENTS
Preface
Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8vii
Tropical Cyclogenesis in Wind Shear:
Climatological Relationships and Physical Processes
David S. Nolan and Michael G. McGauley

1Analysis of Tropical Cyclone Activity in the SouthernHemisphere using Observation and CGCM Simulation
Satoshi Iizuka and Tomonori Matsuura

37

Synoptic and Climatic Aspects of Tropical Cyclogenesis
in Western North Pacific
Tim Li61

Variability of Typhoon Tracks and Genesis Overthe Western North Pacific
Hisayuki Kubota

95

Reduction of Global Tropical Cyclone Frequency Due
to Global Warming
Masato Sugi

115

Estimation of Changes in Tropical Cyclone Intensities
and Associated Precipitation Extremes Due
to Anthropogenic Climate Change
Junichi Tsutsui
Sensitivity of Tropical Cyclones to Large- Scale
Environmentsin a Global Non-Hydrostatic Modelwith Explicit Cloud Microphysics
Yohei Yamada, Kazuyoshi Oouchi, Masaki Satoh,
Akira T. Noda and Hirofumi Tomita
Variability of Extratropical Cyclonic Activity
in the Northern Hemisphere Associated with Global
Processes in the Ocean-Atmosphere System
Alexander Polonsky, Mikhail Bardin and Elena Voskresenskaya

125145161

vi
Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Index

Contents
Tropical Cyclone Simulation in a High-Resolution
Atmosphere-Ocean Coupled General Circulation Model
Wataru Sasaki, Jing-Jia Luo and Sebastien Masson

197

Multi-Scale Dynamics of Tropical Cyclone Formationsin an Equilibrium Simulation Using a Global Cloud-System
Resolving Model
Wataru Yanase, Masaki Satoh, Shin-ichi Iga, Johnny C. L. Chan,Hironori Fudeyasu, Yuqing Wang and Kazuyoshi Oouchi

221

A Prototype Quasi Real-Time Intra-Seasonal Forecastingof Tropical Convection over the Warm Pool Region:
A New Challenge of Global Cloud-System-Resolving Modelfor a Field Campaign
Kazuyoshi Oouchi, Hiroshi Taniguchi, Tomoe Nasuno,
Masaki Satoh, Hirofumi Tomita, Yohei Yamada, Mikiko Ikeda,Ryuichi Shirooka, Hiroyuki Yamada, and Kunio Yoneyama

233Projection of Future Tropical Cyclone Characteristics Basedon Statistical ModelNobuhito Mori249271