Downward trends in the frequency of intense Atlantic hurricanes during the past five decades

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 1697-1700

  Landsea, Christopher W ^a,d   Nicholls, Neville ^a,e   Gray, William M ^b   Avila, Lixion A ^c  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^b Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^c NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER   (United States)

^d ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREENHOUSE EFFECT; STORMS; TROPICS; CLIMATOLOGY; RESEARCH;

ATLANTIC HURRICANE; EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS; HURRICANE SEASON; LONG TERM RECORDS; MAXIMUM INTENSITIES; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL CYCLONE ACTIVITY; TROPICAL STORMS;

HURRICANES;

NORTH ATLANTIC BASIN; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

EXTREME WEATHER EVENT; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HURRICANE; INTENSITY; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

ATLANTIC, (TROPICAL);

EID: 0030159263     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL01029     Document Type: Article

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