Mechanism of the Indian Ocean Tropical Cyclone Frequency Changes due to Global Warming - Monitoring and Prediction of Tropical Cyclones in the Indian Ocean and Climate Change - page 41

Table 1: Hypothesis for the mechanism of global and regional TC frequency changes

Effect Global change Regional change

Radiative Precipitation Stability Upward TC (TC

cooling massflux frequency frequency)

CO 2 Decrease Decrease Decrease Decrease

CO 2

GHG Increase Increase Increase Increase

Uniform SSTA Increase Increase Increase Decrease Decrease

SST

Non-uniform SSTA Shift