The effect of Atlantic sea surface temperature dipole mode on hurricanes: Implications for the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1-3

  Xie, Lian ^a   Yan, Tingzhuang ^a   Pietrafesa, Leonard ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HURRICANES; THERMAL EFFECTS; WIND;

ANNUAL HURRICANE LANDFALL FREQUENCY; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; HURRICANE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 17744393837     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021702     Document Type: Article

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