F. Sanders et Sl. Mullen, THE CLIMATOLOGY OF EXPLOSIVE CYCLOGENESIS IN 2 GENERAL-CIRCULATION MODELS, Monthly weather review, 124(9), 1996, pp. 1948-1954
The occurence of explosive cyclogenesis is studied in two 180-day cold
-season simulations by the Community Climate Models (CCM1 and CCM2) de
veloped at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. The CCM1 run
mas realistic in some respects but produced relatively few cases over
the North Atlantic Ocean and failed to show concentration just off the
east coasts of the continents and north of the warm ocean currents. T
he intensity of cyclogenesis was underestimated in the CCM1 run. All o
f these flaws were mended in the CCM2 run, in which the climatology of
explosive cyclogenesis closely resembled that in the real atmosphere.