Recent increase in high tropical cyclone heat potential area in the Western North Pacific Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 4680-4684

  Pun, Iam Fei ^a   Lin, I I ^b,c   Lo, Min Hui ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c RESEARCH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

ocean condition; satellite altimetry; tropical cyclone heat potential; typhoons; warm water layer

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; HURRICANES; SATELLITES; STORMS; TROPICS;

AREA COVERAGES; KEYPOINTS; OCEAN CONDITIONS; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SUB-SURFACE OCEAN; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WARM WATER; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 84879100496     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50548     Document Type: Article

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