West North Pacific typhoon track patterns and their potential connection to Tibetan Plateau snow cover

Natural Hazards

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 317-333

  Xie, Lian ^a   Yan, Tingzhuang ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate variability; TP snow cover; Typhoon; Western North Pacific East Asian summer monsoon

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; MONSOON; SNOW COVER; STORM TRACK; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TYPHOON;

CHINA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 53649094292     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-006-9087-9     Document Type: Article

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