Different El Niño types and tropical cyclone landfall in East Asia

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 6510-6523

  Zhang, Wei ^a   Graf, H F ^b   Leung, Yee ^a   Herzog, Michael ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

El Nino; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

EAST ASIA; EASTERN PACIFIC; EL NINO; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; PHILIPPINES; STEERING FLOW; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

HURRICANES;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

EL NINO; LA NINA; SUMMER; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

INDOCHINA; JAPAN; KOREA; MALAY PENINSULA; PHILIPPINES;

EID: 84867674854     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00488.1     Document Type: Article

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