Influence of model biases on projected future changes in tropical cyclone frequency of occurrence

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2159-2181

  Murakami, Hiroyuki ^a   Hsu, Pang Chi ^a,b   Arakawa, Osamu ^c   Li, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH INDIAN OCEANS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HURRICANES; OCEANOGRAPHY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

ARABIAN SEA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF BENGAL; CARIBBEAN SEA; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84897652068     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00436.1     Document Type: Article

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