Critical role of northern off-equatorial sea surface temperature forcing associated with central pacific el niño in more frequent tropical cyclone movements toward east asia

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2534-2545

  Jin, Chun Sil ^a   Ho, Chang Hoi ^a   Kim, Joo Hong ^b   Lee, Dong Kyou ^a   Cha, Dong Hyun ^c   Yeh, Sang Wook ^d  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

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

^c Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^d Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL REGIONS; EAST CHINA SEA; PHILIPPINE SEAS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER RESEARCH;

EXPERIMENTS; HURRICANES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EL NINO; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WARMING;

EAST CHINA SEA; FAR EAST; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); PHILIPPINE SEA;

EID: 84877826256     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00287.1     Document Type: Article

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