Decadal change in relationship between western North Pacific tropical cyclone frequency and the tropical Pacific SST

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 106, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 179-189

  Yeh, Sang Wook ^a   Kang, Sok Kuh ^a   Kirtman, Ben P ^b   Kim, Joo Hong ^c   Kwon, Min Ho ^d   Kim, Cheol Ho ^a  

^a Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c Met Officie Hadley Centre   (United Kingdom)

^d IPRC ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; DECADAL VARIATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONALITY; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 77953119934     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: 14365065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-010-0057-0     Document Type: Article

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