Projected changes in late-twenty-first-century tropical cyclone frequency in 13 coupled climate models from phase 5 of the coupled model intercomparison project

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 9946-9959

  Tory, K J ^a   Chand, S S ^b   Mcbride, J L ^a,c   Ye, H ^a   Dare, R A ^a  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate models; Cyclogenesis cyclolysis

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; ATMOSPHERIC REANALYSIS DATA; CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUE; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; CYCLOGENESIS/CYCLOLYSIS; EMISSION SCENARIO; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DETECTORS; HURRICANES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

EID: 84890136036     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00010.1     Document Type: Article

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