Typhoon track changes associated with global warming

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 3748-3752

  Wang, Ruifang ^a,b   Wu, Liguang ^a,b   Wang, Chao ^a,b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Trends; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE SIMULATIONS; EAST ASIA; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOUTH CHINA SEA; STEERING FLOW; TRACK CHANGES; TRENDS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL CYCLONES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL WARMING; HURRICANES; STORMS; TROPICS;

SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GLOBAL WARMING; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TREND ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TYPHOON;

FAR EAST; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 79960684271     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00074.1     Document Type: Article

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