Historical tropical cyclone activity and impacts in the Cook Islands

Pacific Science

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 443-459

  de Scally, Fes A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DATABASE; EL NINO; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HISTORICAL RECORD; LA NINA; SATELLITE DATA; STORM SURGE; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

COOK ISLANDS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYNESIA;

EID: 53449097581     PISSN: 00308870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2984/1534-6188(2008)62[443:HTCAAI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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