A new method for attributing climate variations over the Atlantic Hurricane Basin's main development region

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Zhang, Rong ^a   Delworth, Thomas L ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC HURRICANE; CLIMATE VARIATION; INTERNAL OCEANIC VARIABILITY; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; MULTIDECADAL VARIATIONS; NEW APPROACHES; OCEAN HEAT TRANSPORT; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VERTICAL SHEAR;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; STORMS;

HURRICANES;

CLIMATE VARIATION; HEAT TRANSFER; HURRICANE; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 66949180808     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037260     Document Type: Article

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