On the relationship between North Atlantic sea surface temperatures and U.S. hurricane landfall risk

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 111-129

  Dailey, Peter S ^a   Zuba, Gerhard ^a   Ljung, Greta ^a   Dima, Ioana M ^a   Guin, Jayanta ^a  

^a AIR Worldwide Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC BASINS; ATLANTIC OCEANS; CLIMATE SIGNALS; EAST COASTS; ECONOMIC LOSS; FEEDBACK MECHANISMS; GENERAL CIRCULATIONS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTIONS; GULF COASTS; HURRICANE LANDFALLS; HURRICANE SEASONS; INTENSITY MEASURES; INTENSITY SPECTRUMS; NORTH ATLANTIC; OCEAN TEMPERATURES; PATTERN SHIFTS; PHYSICAL ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL THEORIES; REASONABILITY; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE ACTIVITIES; TROPICAL CYCLONES; TROPICAL STORMS; WIND SPEED;

LANDFORMS; LIFE CYCLE; MODULATION; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RISK ANALYSIS; SEAWATER; STORMS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMAL EFFECTS; TROPICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; HURRICANE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 65349083956     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAMC1871.1     Document Type: Article

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