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March 25, 2013

Improved and traditional models of tropical cyclones are compared in this image.

Statistics of randomly selected 100 tropical cyclones simulated by a model with improved representation of cloud processes (left) and by the same model with a conventional representation of cloud processes during the same period of time.

Credit: Cristiana Stan, George Mason University, COLA


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