Dominant Role of Subtropical Pacific Warming in Extreme Eastern Pacific Hurricane Seasons: 2015 and the Future

Murakami, Hiroyuki; A. Vecchi, Gabriel; L. Delworth, Thomas; T. Wittenberg, Andrew; Underwood, Seth; Gudgel, R.; Yang, Xiaosong; Jia, Liwei; Zeng, Fanrong; Paffendorf, Karen; Zhang, Wei

doi:10.1175/jcli-d-16-0424.1

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Dominant Role of Subtropical Pacific Warming in Extreme Eastern Pacific Hurricane Seasons: 2015 and the Future

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Authors:

Hiroyuki Murakami

Gabriel A. Vecchi

Thomas L. Delworth

Abstract

The 2015 hurricane season in the eastern and central Pacific Ocean (EPO and CPO), particularly around Hawaii, was extremely active, including a record number of tropical cyclones (TCs) and the first instance of three simultaneous category-4 hurricanes in the EPO and CPO. A strong El Niño developed d...

Subject

Climatology

Subtropics

Environmental science

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