On the incompleteness of the historical record of North Atlantic tropical cyclones

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Solow, Andrew R ^a   Beet, Andrew R ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ESTIMATION; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; STORMS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TROPICS;

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; NORTH ATLANTIC; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; STATISTICAL MODELLING; TROPICAL CYCLONE ACTIVITY; TROPICAL CYCLONES;

PROBABILITY;

ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PROBABILITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 49849104285     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL033546     Document Type: Article

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