Abstract
Surface wind and temperature records from the European Centre for Medium- Range Weather Forecasts 40 Year Reanalysis (ERA-40) Project are used to estimate low-frequency variations in globally integrated tropical cyclone (TC) intensity from 1958 to 2001. For the first time, the annually integrated power dissipation (PD) is explicitly calculated on a global scale, and results show an upward trend in PD during much of the ERA-40 project period, although we argue this is at least partially due to limitations in cyclone representation in ERA-40. Comparing our estimated trend in PD with Emanuel's (2005) approximation to PD reveals good agreement after 1978, coinciding with the onset of a major satellite observing-system epoch in ERA-40. The low pass (>60 months) filtered PD time series correlates with mean annual tropical temperature, thus this result is consistent with the hypothesis that tropical temperatures may directly regulate the integrated intensity of TCs.
Keywords
Climate dynamics, Climate variability
Date of this Version
6-8-2006
Repository Citation
Sriver, Ryan and Huber, Matthew, "Low Frequency Variability In Globally Integrated Tropical Cyclone Power Dissipation" (2006). Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Faculty Publications. Paper 162.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/easpubs/162
Embargo
8-29-2016
Comments
Originally published by AGU Publications, in Geophysical Research Letters. DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026167
Manuscript Received: 27 February 2006
Manuscript Accepted: 1 May 2006
Version of record online: 8 June 2006