Seasonal Forecasting of Tropical Cyclone Landfall over Mozambique

From: Journal of Climate | Date: December 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

ABSTRACT

The 2000 tropical cyclone season over the South Indian Ocean (SIO) was exceptional in terms of tropical cyclone landfall over Mozambique. Observed data suggest that SIO tropical cyclones have a track significantly more zonal during a La Nina event and tend to be more frequent when local SSTs are warmer. The combination of both conditions happened during the 2000 SIO tropical cyclone season and may explain the exceptional number of tropical cyclone landfalls over Mozambique during that season. A set of experiments using an atmospheric model of fairly high resolution (T^sub L^159, with ...

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