ENSO impact on hurricane landfall probabilities for the Caribbean

Journal of Climate

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 2925-2931

  Tartaglione, Carissa A ^a   Smith, Shawn R ^a   O'Brien, James J ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HURRICANES; LANDFORMS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

LANDFALL PROBABILITY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HURRICANE; PROBABILITY; STORM TRACK;

CARIBBEAN ISLANDS;

EID: 0142010041     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<2925:EIOHLP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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