Future projections of extreme ocean wave climates and the relation to tropical cyclones: Ensemble experiments of MRI-AGCM3.2H

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 9838-9856

  Shimura, Tomoya ^a   Mori, Nobuhito ^a   Mase, Hajime ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Circulation Dynamics; Climate change; Physical meteorology and climatology; Wind waves

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; HURRICANES; OCEAN CURRENTS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STORMS; SURFACE WATERS; SURFACE WAVES; WATER WAVES;

EXTREME OCEAN WAVES; EXTREME WAVE HEIGHTS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; OCEAN SURFACE WAVES; RETURN WAVE HEIGHTS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC; WIND WAVE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EXTREME EVENT; OCEAN WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84957648937     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00711.1     Document Type: Article

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