Preface ....................................................... vii
Chapter 1 Tropical Cyclogenesis in Wind Shear:
Climatological Relationships and Physical Processes .. 1
David S. Nolan and Michael G. McGauley
Chapter 2 Analysis of Tropical Cyclone Activity in the
Southern Hemisphere using Observation and CGCM
Simulation .......................................... 37
Satoshi Iizuka and Tomonori Matsuura
Chapter 3 Synoptic and Climatic Aspects of Tropical
Cyclogenesis in Western North Pacific ............... 61
Tim Li
Chapter 4 Variability of Typhoon Tracks and Genesis Over
the Western North Pacific ........................... 95
Hisayuki Kubota
Chapter 5 Reduction of Global Tropical Cyclone Frequency
Due to Global Warming .............................. 115
Masato Sugi
Chapter 6 Estimation of Changes in Tropical Cyclone
Intensities and Associated Precipitation Extremes
Due to Anthropogenic Climate Change ................ 125
Junichi Tsutsui
Chapter 7 Sensitivity of Tropical Cyclones to Large-Scale
Environmentsin a Global Non-Hydrostatic Model
with Explicit Cloud Microphysics ................... 145
Yohei Yamada, Kazuyoshi Oouchi, Masaki Satoh,
Akira T. Noda and Hirofumi Tomita
Chapter 8 Variability of Extratropical Cyclonic Activity
in the Northern Hemisphere Associated with Global
Processes in the Ocean-Atmosphere System ........... 161
Alexander Polonsky, Mikhail Bardin and Elena
Voskresenskaya
Chapter 9 Tropical Cyclone Simulation in a High-Resolution
Atmosphere-Ocean Coupled General Circulation
Model .............................................. 197
Wataru Sasaki, Jing-Jia Luo and Sebastien Masson
Chapter 10 Multi-Scale Dynamics of Tropical Cyclone
Formations in an Equilibrium Simulation Using a
Global Cloud-System Resolving Model ................ 221
Wataru Yanase, Masaki Satoh, Shin-ichi Iga,
Johnny C.L. Chan, Hironori Fudeyasu, Yuqing Wang
and Kazuyoshi Oouchi
Chapter 11 A Prototype Quasi Real-Time Intra-Seasonal
Forecasting of Tropical Convection over the Warm
Pool Region: A New Challenge of Global Cloud-
System-Resolving Model for a Field Campaign ........ 233
Kazuyoshi Oouchi, Hiroshi Taniguchi, Tomoe Nasuno,
Masaki Satoh, Hirofumi Tomita, Yohei Yamada,
Mikiko Ikeda, Ryuichi Shirooka, Hiroyuki Yamada'
and Kunio Yoneyama
Chapter 12 Projection of Future Tropical Cyclone
Characteristics Based on Statistical Model ......... 249
Nobuhito Mori
Index ......................................................... 271
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