Estimated return periods for Hurricane Katrina

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2006, Pages

  Elsner, J B ^a   Jagger, T H ^a   Tsonis, A A ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HURRICANE EFFECTS; HURRICANES; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY;

COASTAL HURRICANES; GREENHOUSE WARMING; HURRICANE KATRINA;

CLIMATOLOGY;

GLOBAL WARMING; HURRICANE; NATURAL DISASTER; PROBABILITY; RETURN PERIOD; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALABAMA; GULF COAST [UNITED STATES]; MAINE; NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745442027     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025452     Document Type: Article

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