Global warming shifts Pacific tropical cyclone location

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 21, 2010, Pages

  Li, Tim ^a   Kwon, Minho ^a,c   Zhao, Ming ^c   Kug, Jong Seong ^b   Luo, Jing Jia ^d   Yu, Weidong ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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

^e FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; HURRICANES; STORMS;

20TH CENTURY; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC STATIC STABILITY; CARBON DIOXIDE CONCENTRATIONS; COUPLED MODELS; HIGH RESOLUTION; LOWER BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; NORTH PACIFIC; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TIME SLICE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VERTICAL WIND SHEAR; WARMING CLIMATE; WESTERN PACIFIC;

TROPICS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; GLOBAL WARMING; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PERTURBATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; WIND SHEAR;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 78249272349     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045124     Document Type: Article

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