Different impacts of two kinds of Pacific Ocean warming on tropical cyclone frequency over the western North Pacific

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Chen, Guanghua ^a   Tam, Chi Yung ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICYCLONIC ANOMALIES; HEATING SOURCE; MERIDIONAL DIPOLE; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PACIFIC OCEAN; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

HEATING; HURRICANES; OCEANOGRAPHY; STORMS; TROPICS;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

CORRELATION; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; TEMPORAL PERIOD; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WARMING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 75749089183     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041708     Document Type: Article

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