Low frequency variability of tropical cyclone potential intensity 2. Climatology for 1982-1995

Abstract

In this note, we describe the method of calculating a climatology of tropical cyclone potential intensities for the years 1982-1995, as displayed at http://www.mit.edu/ ∼emanuel/pcmin/climo.html. The climatology has been constructed from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction/National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCEP/ NCAR) Reanalysis and the Reynolds' Global Sea Surface Optimum Interpolation (OI) temperature analysis. We estimate errors in potential intensities resulting from known problems in the data and discuss the results. Copyright 2002 by the American Geophysical Union.