Imperial College London
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ProfessorRalfToumi

Faculty of Natural Sciences, The Grantham Institute for Climate Change

Co-Director, Grantham Institute - Climate Change&Environment
 
 
 
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713Huxley BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

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@article{Lok:2022:10.1007/s00376-022-1326-9,
author = {Lok, CCF and Chan, JCL and Toumi, R},
doi = {10.1007/s00376-022-1326-9},
journal = {Advances in Atmospheric Sciences},
pages = {1777--1786},
title = {Importance of air-sea coupling in simulating tropical cyclone intensity at landfall},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00376-022-1326-9},
volume = {39},
year = {2022}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - An atmosphere-only model system for making seasonal prediction and projecting future intensities of landfalling tropical cyclones (TCs) along the South China coast is upgraded by including ocean and wave models. A total of 642 TCs have been re-simulated using the new system to produce a climatology of TC intensity in the South China Sea. Detailed comparisons of the simulations from the atmosphere-only and the fully coupled systems reveal that the inclusion of the additional ocean and wave models enable differential sea surface temperature responses to various TC characteristics such as translational speed and size. In particular, interaction with the ocean does not necessarily imply a weakening of the TC, with the coastal bathymetry possibly playing a role in causing a near-shore intensification of the TC. These results suggest that to simulate the evolution of TC structure more accurately, it is essential to use an air-sea coupled model instead of an atmosphere-only model.
AU  - Lok,CCF
AU  - Chan,JCL
AU  - Toumi,R
DO  - 10.1007/s00376-022-1326-9
EP  - 1786
PY  - 2022///
SN  - 0256-1530
SP  - 1777
TI  - Importance of air-sea coupling in simulating tropical cyclone intensity at landfall
T2  - Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00376-022-1326-9
UR  - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000805717900002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR  - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-022-1326-9
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/97807
VL  - 39
ER  -
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