Slower decay of landfalling hurricanes in a warming world

L Li, P Chakraborty - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
When a hurricane strikes land, the destruction of property and the environment and the loss
of life are largely confined to a narrow coastal area. This is because hurricanes are fuelled …

[HTML][HTML] A review of recent research progress on the effect of external influences on tropical cyclone intensity change

JB Wadler, JE Rudzin, BJ de la Cruz, J Chen… - … Cyclone Research and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the past four years, significant research has advanced our understanding of how
external factors influence tropical cyclone (TC) intensity changes. Research on air-sea …

[HTML][HTML] A simple model for predicting the tropical cyclone radius of maximum wind from outer size

DR Chavas, JA Knaff - Weather and Forecasting, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
The radius of maximum wind (R max) in a tropical cyclone governs the footprint of hazards,
including damaging wind, surge, and rainfall. However, R max is an inconstant quantity that …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress in research and forecasting of tropical cyclone outer size

BA Schenkel, C Noble, D Chavas, KTF Chan… - … Cyclone Research and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This review article summarizes the current understanding and recent updates to tropical
cyclone outer size and structure forecasting and research primarily since 2018 as part of the …

[HTML][HTML] The response of the near-surface tropical cyclone wind field to inland surface roughness length and soil moisture content during and after landfall

J Hlywiak, DS Nolan - Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
The sensitivity of the inland wind decay to realistic inland surface roughness lengths and soil
moisture contents is evaluated for strong, idealized tropical cyclones (TCs) of category 4 …

[HTML][HTML] Tropical cyclone potential size

D Wang, Y Lin, DR Chavas - Journal of the Atmospheric …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
A model for tropical cyclone (TC) potential size (PS), which is capable of predicting the
equilibrium outer radius of a TC solely from environmental parameters, is proposed. The …

[HTML][HTML] North Atlantic tropical cyclone outer size and structure remain unchanged by the late twenty-first century

BA Schenkel, D Chavas, N Lin, T Knutson… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
There is a lack of consensus on whether North Atlantic tropical cyclone (TC) outer size and
structure (ie, change in outer winds with increasing radius from the TC) will differ by the late …

Biases in CMIP6 historical US severe convective storm environments driven by biases in mean‐state near‐surface moist static energy

DR Chavas, F Li - Geophysical Research Letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This work evaluates how well Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 6 models reproduce
the climatology of North American severe convective storm (SCS) environments in ERA5 …

The vortex structure and near‐surface winds of Typhoon Faxai (2019) during landfall. Part II: Evaluation of WRF simulations

T Takahashi, DS Nolan… - Quarterly Journal of the …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This two‐part study presents a comprehensive analysis of (1) the vortex structure,(2) the
inner core planetary boundary layer (PBL) wind profile, and (3) the overland surface winds …

[HTML][HTML] An analytic model of the tropical cyclone outer size

S Wang, R Toumi - npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2022 - nature.com
There are simple conceptual models of tropical cyclone intensification and potential
intensity. However, such a framework has been lacking to describe the evolution of the outer …