The U.S. CLIVAR Hurricane Working Group was formed in January of 2011 to coordinate efforts to produce a set of model experiments designed to improve understanding of the variability of tropical cyclone formation in climate models.
The scientific objectives of the Hurricane WG include:
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| Gabriel Vecchi, co-chair | NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory |
| Suzana Camargo, co-chair | Columbia University/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory |
| Kevin Walsh, co-chair | University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Lennart Bengtsson | University of Reading, UK |
| James Elsner | Florida State University |
| Kerry Emanuel | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| In-Sik Kang | Seoul National University, Korea |
| Jim Kossin | NOAA National Climatic Data Center |
| Chris Landsea | NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory |
| Tim LaRow | Florida State University |
| Kazuyoshi Oouchi | Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology |
| Siegfried Schubert | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Adam Sobel | Columbia University |
| Enrico Scoccimarro | INGV-CMCC, Italy |
| Gabriele Villarini | University of Iowa |
| Hui Wang | NOAA NCEP |
| Michael Wehner | DOE Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Ming Zhao | NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory |
Terms of Reference
- Define common experiments for model simulations by participating model groups
- Supply common data sets and tropical cyclone metrics for those experiments
- Coordinate the evaluation and reporting of common experiments and the storage of model output
- Organize a series of workshops to present and discuss the results
Funding for U.S. CLIVAR provided by
