Factors contributing to the development of extreme North Atlantic cyclones and their relationship with the NAO

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 711-737

  Pinto, Joaquim G ^a   Zacharias, Stefan ^a   Fink, Andreas H ^a   Leckebusch, Gregor C ^b   Ulbrich, Uwe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic climate change; Cyclone activity; Extreme cyclones; Growth factors; North atlantic oscillation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CYCLONE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 60349130991     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-008-0396-4     Document Type: Article

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