Future changes in tropical cyclone activity projected by the new high-resolution MRI-AGCM

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 3237-3260

  Murakami, Hiroyuki ^a   Wang, Yuqing ^b   Yoshimura, Hiromasa ^c   Mizuta, Ryo ^c   Sugi, Masato ^a   Shindo, Eiki ^c   Adachi, Yukimasa ^c   Yukimoto, Seiji ^c   Hosaka, Masahiro ^c   Kusunoki, Shoji ^c   Ose, Tomoaki ^c   Kitoh, Akio ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climate change; Tropical cyclones; Tropics

Indexed keywords

A1B SCENARIOS; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; CATASTROPHIC DAMAGE; CLIMATE WARMS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL; METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES; PACIFIC OCEAN; REALISTIC SIMULATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL CYCLONE ACTIVITY; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HURRICANES; TROPICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; METEOROLOGY; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 84862102873     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00415.1     Document Type: Article

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