Consensus on climate trends in Western North pacific tropical cyclones

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 7564-7573

  Kang, Nam Young ^a   Elsner, James B ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hurricanes typhoons

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE TRENDS; DATA-SOURCES; JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCIES; METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY; PROBABILITY LEVELS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WARNING CENTERS; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC; WIND SPEED;

WIND EFFECTS;

HURRICANES;

CLIMATE VARIATION; HURRICANE; TREND ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TYPHOON; WIND VELOCITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84870051014     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00735.1     Document Type: Article

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