Atmospheric impact on the northwestern Pacific under a global warming scenario

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 16, 2012, Pages

  Cheon, Woo Geun ^a   Park, Young Gyu ^b   Yeh, Sang Wook ^c   Kim, Baek Min ^d  

^a Agency for Defence Development   (South Korea)

^b Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

^c Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^d Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEAN CURRENTS; SEA LEVEL; WIND STRESS;

AIR MOTION; ATMOSPHERIC IMPACT; EMISSION SCENARIO; EXTRATROPICAL; HADLEY CIRCULATION; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION MODELS; KUROSHIO; KUROSHIO EXTENSION; NORTH PACIFIC; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SUBTROPICAL GYRE; WIND STRESS CURL;

GLOBAL WARMING;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; GYRE; HADLEY CELL; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SUBTROPICAL REGION; WIND STRESS;

JAPAN; KUROSHIO CURRENT; KUROSHIO EXTENSION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); TAIWAN;

EID: 84865800748     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052364     Document Type: Article

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