A primary study of the correlation between the net air-sea heat flux and the interannual variation of western North Pacific tropical cyclone track and intensity

Acta Oceanologica Sinica

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 27-35

  Wu, Liang ^a,b   Wen, Zhiping ^a   Huang, Ronghui ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Interannual variation; The net air sea heat flux (Q net); Tropical cyclone; Western North Pacific

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863709757     PISSN: 0253505X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13131-011-0158-8     Document Type: Article

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