Recent decrease in typhoon destructive potential and global warming implications

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Lin, I I ^a   Chan, Johnny C L ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECADAL VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; TYPHOON;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HURRICANE; ISOTHERM; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; POWER DISSIPATION INDEX; SEA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; TYPHOON DESTRUCTIVE POTENTIAL; WIND; WIND POWER;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC RIM;

EID: 84930204560     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8182     Document Type: Article

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