The impact of natural and anthropogenic climate change on western North Pacific tropical cyclone tracks

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1806-1823

  Colbert, Angela J ^a   Soden, Brian J ^a   Kirtman, Ben P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate models; Climate variability; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; HURRICANES; STORMS; TROPICS;

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; ANTHROPOGENIC WARMING; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; STORM TRACK; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84961291572     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00100.1     Document Type: Article

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