Abstract
The possibility of simulating tropical cyclones (TCs) using the NCAR Community Climate Model (CCM2) is explored. Daily outputs from a long-term simulation run using the standard T42 resolution CCM2 are examined to identify simulated tropical cyclones (STCs) using a search scheme that selects qualified STCs resembling observed TCs. The simulation case is a 10-year run driven by the sea surface temperatures (SSTs) corresponding to the decade from 1979 to 1988. The climatology of STCs is discussed in terms of their genesis, movements, and seasonal and interannual variations through the comparisons with observed TC statistics. Despite obvious shortcomings of the standard CCM2, such as a coarse horizontal resolution, the climatology of STCs is in reasonably good agreement with that of observed TCs.
