Impact of SSTA in the East Indian Ocean on the frequency of Northwest Pacific tropical cyclones: A regional atmospheric model study

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 6227-6242

  Zhan, Ruifen ^a   Wang, Yuqing ^b   Wu, Chun Chieh ^c  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Atmosphere ocean interaction; Interannual variability; Numerical analysis modeling; Teleconnections; Tropical cyclones; Tropical variabilty

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; TELECONNECTIONS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL VARIABILTY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXPERIMENTS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HURRICANES; STORMS;

TROPICS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; KELVIN WAVE; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (EAST); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

EID: 83755207520     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-10-05014.1     Document Type: Article

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