Observed and projected decrease in Northern Hemisphere extratropical cyclone activity in summer and its impacts on maximum temperature

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 2200-2208

  Chang, Edmund K M ^a   Ma, Chen Geng ^a   Zheng, Cheng ^a   Yau, Albert M W ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; extratropical cyclones; maximum temperature; model bias

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; GREENHOUSE GASES; STORMS;

CYCLONE ACTIVITY; EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONES; HIGH IMPACT; HIGH LATITUDES; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; MIDLATITUDES; MODEL BIAS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD COVER; FUTURE PROSPECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84960365132     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL068172     Document Type: Article

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