Low Atlantic hurricane activity in the 1970s and 1980s compared to the past 270 years

Nature

Volumn 447, Issue 7145, 2007, Pages 698-701

  Nyberg, Johan ^a   Malmgren, Björn A ^b   Winter, Amos ^c   Jury, Mark R ^d   Kilbourne, K Halimeda ^e,f   Quinn, Terrence M ^e,g  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SWEDEN   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^f EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CORE ANALYSIS; HURRICANE; MARINE SEDIMENT; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CORAL; HURRICANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENT; WIND;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 34250015827     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05895     Document Type: Article

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