To evaluate the model's performance in
simulating storms frequency during 1961 — 1990, chi square test is carried out with observed storms for the same period.
Not exact matches
For example, when examining hurricanes and typhoons, the lack of a high - quality, long - term historical record, uncertainty regarding the impact of climate change on
storm frequency and inability to accurately
simulate these
storms in most global climate models raises significant challenges when attributing assessing the impact of climate change on any single
storm.
The GFDL hurricane model (with a grid spacing as fine as 9 km) is able to
simulate the
frequency, intensity, and structure of the more intense hurricanes, such as category 3 - 5
storms, much more realistically than the regional (18 km grid) model.
The ability of climate models to
simulate extra-tropical
storm tracks and
storm frequency is encouraging.