Has the western pacific subtropical high extended westward since the late 1970s?

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 5406-5413

  Wu, Liguang ^a   Wang, Chao ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; RAIN; STORMS; TROPICS;

GEO-POTENTIAL HEIGHTS; GLOBAL TRENDS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SUMMER RAINFALL; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WARMING CLIMATE; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC; WESTERN PACIFIC;

HURRICANES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOPOTENTIAL; HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; RAINFALL; STORM TRACK; SUBTROPICAL CONVERGENCE; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

CHINA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84942057997     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00618.1     Document Type: Article

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