Climate mechanism for stronger typhoons in a warmer world

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1051-1057

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

^a National Typhoon Center   (South Korea)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atm Ocean Structure Phenomena; Climate change; Mathematical and statistical techniques; Physical Meteorology and Climatology; Statistics; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; GLOBAL WARMING; HURRICANES; STATISTICS; STORMS; TROPICS;

AIR PRESSURES; DEEP CONVECTION; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; THERMODYNAMIC CHANGES; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL TROPOSPHERE; TYPHOON INTENSITIES; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CLIMATE MODELING; CYCLOGENESIS; GLOBAL WARMING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; TYPHOON; WIND VELOCITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84957818790     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0585.1     Document Type: Article

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