Cyclone life cycle characteristics over the Northern Hemisphere in coupled GCMs

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 507-532

  Löptien, Ulrike ^a   Zolina, Olga ^b,c   Gulev, Sergey ^a,b   Latif, Mojib ^a   Soloviov, Vladimir ^b  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Cyclone characteristics; Cyclone tracking; ECHAM; Extra tropical cyclones; Northern Hemisphere; Reanalysis; Storm tracks

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; STORM TRACK; TRACKING; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

EID: 50449101414     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-007-0355-5     Document Type: Article

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