False causality between Atlantic hurricane activity fluctuations and seasonal lower atmospheric wind anomalies

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 18, 2008, Pages

  Swanson, Kyle L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ATMOSPHERICS; STORMS;

ATLANTIC; ATLANTIC HURRICANES; ATMOSPHERIC WINDS; DYNAMICAL FIELDS; HURRICANE ACTIVITIES; RADIAL STRUCTURES; SEASONAL WINDS; STATISTICAL STUDIES; TIME VARYING; TROPICAL CYCLONES; TROPOSPHERIC WINDS; VORTEX STRUCTURES;

VORTICITY;

AIRCRAFT; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; HURRICANE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPOSPHERE; VORTICITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 57849131288     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034469     Document Type: Article

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