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Seasonal Forecasts of Tropical Cyclones Using GFDL SPEAR and HiFLOR-S



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    Journal of Climate
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    The seasonal prediction skill of tropical cyclone (TC) activity is evaluated using the Seamless System for Prediction and Earth System Research (SPEAR), a modeling system developed at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) for experimental real-time seasonal forecasts. Compared with previous GFDL seasonal prediction models, SPEAR demonstrates improved skill in predicting TC activity for the western North Pacific, while exhibiting comparable or slightly degraded skill for the eastern North Pacific and North Atlantic. These changes in prediction skill do not always align with changes in prediction skill in large-scale variables, particularly over the North Atlantic. This study highlights that changes in the model’s response of TCs to large-scale variables, as well as the changes in the amplitude of interannual variations in TC genesis frequency, are crucial for the changes in TC prediction skill. Using the predicted sea surface temperatures from SPEAR as lower boundary conditions, the High-Resolution Forecast-Oriented Low Ocean Resolution (HiFLOR-S) model was employed to predict intense TCs, demonstrating skillful predictions of major hurricanes that are comparable to the previous HiFLOR coupled model predictions.
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    Journal of Climate, 38(9), 2015-2030
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    0894-8755 ; 1520-0442
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    American Meteorological Society
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