Projected changes in tropical cyclones over Vietnam and the South China Sea using a 25 km regional climate model perturbed physics ensemble

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 45, Issue 7-8, 2015, Pages 1983-2000

  Redmond, Grace ^a   Hodges, Kevin I ^b   Mcsweeney, Carol ^a   Jones, Richard ^a   Hein, David ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 84943815934     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2450-8     Document Type: Article

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