Causes of the unusually destructive 2004 Atlantic basin hurricane season

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 87, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1325-1333

  Klotzbach, Philip J ^a   Gray, William M ^a  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CLIMATOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TROPICS;

ATLANTIC BASIN HURRICANE SEASON; ATLANTIC EQUATORIAL TROUGH; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STEERING CURRENTS;

HURRICANE EFFECTS;

EID: 33751011609     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-87-10-1325     Document Type: Article

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