Wintertime extratropical cyclone frequency around Japan

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 38, Issue 11-12, 2012, Pages 2307-2317

  Inatsu, Masaru ^a   Terakura, Kazutaka ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cyclone tracking; Extratropical cyclones; Regional atmospheric model

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY CONDITION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; STORM TRACK; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WINTER;

JAPAN;

EID: 84861827398     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1152-8     Document Type: Article

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