How much do tropical cyclones affect seasonal and interannual rainfall variability over the western North Pacific?

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 5495-5510

  Kubota, Hisayuki ^a   Wang, Bin ^b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EAST ASIAN MONSOON; HIGH-TC; INTERANNUAL RAINFALL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; ISLAND CHAINS; NONLOCAL; PHILIPPINES; RAINFALL DATA; SEASONAL AND INTERANNUAL VARIATIONS; SEASONAL RAINFALL; SEASONALITY; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SPATIAL TEMPORALS; STATION DATA; SUMMER MONSOON RAINFALL; TOTAL RAINFALL; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; HURRICANES; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; STORMS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TROPICS;

RAIN;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; LA NINA; MONSOON; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

CAROLINE ISLANDS; FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA; GUAM; HUALIEN; KOROR; MARIANA ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PALAU; PHILIPPINE SEA; TAIWAN; YAP;

EID: 76649100427     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2646.1     Document Type: Article

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