Dynamical downscaling forecasts of Western North Pacific tropical cyclone genesis and landfall

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 42, Issue 7-8, 2014, Pages 2227-2237

  Huang, Wan Ru ^a,b   Chan, Johnny C L ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

East Asia; Regional climate model; Tropical cyclone landfall

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DOWNSCALING; HINDCASTING; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

FAR EAST; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 84897475737     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1747-3     Document Type: Article

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