The potential impacts of warmer-continent-related lower-layer equatorial westerly wind on tropical cyclone initiation

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 333-343

  Yuan, Zhuojian ^a   Qian, Yu Kun ^a,b   Qi, Jindian ^a   Wu, Junjie ^c  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^c CIVIL AVIATION FLIGHT UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

climate change; global warming; human activities; tropical cyclone

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863159496     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-011-1100-x     Document Type: Article

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