Simulations of the present and late-twenty-first-century western north pacific tropical cyclone activity using a regional model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3405-3424

  Wu, Liang ^a   Chou, Chia ^b,c   Chen, Cheng Ta ^d   Huang, Ronghui ^a   Knutson, Thomas R ^e   Sirutis, Joseph J ^e   Garner, Stephen T ^e   Kerr, Christopher ^e   Lee, Chia Jung ^b   Feng, Ya Chien ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b RESEARCH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING;

ASIAN SUMMER MONSOONS; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; FUTURE PROJECTIONS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; SIGNIFICANCE LEVELS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TROPICAL CYCLONE ACTIVITY; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

HURRICANES;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; MONSOON; SUMMER; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

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

EID: 84899065813     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00830.1     Document Type: Article

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