Attribution of projected future changes in tropical cyclone passage frequency over the western North Pacific

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4096-4111

  Yokoi, Satoru ^a,b   Takayabu, Yukari N ^a,b   Murakami, Hiroyuki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climate change; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

EAST ASIAN COUNTRIES; FREQUENCY CHANGES; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OCEANIC REGIONS; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE CHANGE; TRANSLATION VECTOR; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

HURRICANES;

CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO; JET STREAM; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

JAPAN; KOREA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84880304883     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00218.1     Document Type: Article

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