Tropical cyclone intensity change in the western North Pacific: Downscaling from IPCC AR4 experiments

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 223-233

  Wang, Chao ^a   Wu, Liguang ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GLOBAL WARMING; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEAN BASIN; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STORM TRACK; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84861924455     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.2012-205     Document Type: Article

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