Trade-off between intensity and frequency of global tropical cyclones

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 661-664

  Kang, Nam Young ^a,b   Elsner, James B ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b National Typhoon Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL CHANGE; HIGH PRESSURE; TRADE-OFF; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84932123453     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2646     Document Type: Article

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