Frequency of severe storms and global warming

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 19, 2008, Pages

  Aumann, Hartmut H ^a   Ruzmaikin, Alexander ^a   Teixeira, Joao ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLOUDS; GLOBAL WARMING; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MILITARY OPERATIONS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SOUNDING APPARATUS; STORMS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

AIRS DATUMS; CLIMATE MODELS; RAIN EVENTS; SEVERE STORMS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVES; TROPICAL OCEANS; ZONAL MEANS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE MODELING; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GLOBAL WARMING; SEVERE WEATHER; STORM;

EID: 57749199285     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034562     Document Type: Article

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