Tropical cyclone changes in the western north pacific in a global warming scenario

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2378-2396

  Stowasser, Markus ^a   Wang, Yuqing ^a   Hamilton, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STORMS; TROPICS; WIND;

COUPLED GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE WARMING; TROPICAL CYCLONE CHANGES; TROPICAL CYCLONES;

GLOBAL WARMING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL WARMING; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 34250891915     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4126.1     Document Type: Article

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