Reconstructing the trajectory of the August 1680 hurricane from contemporary records

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 90, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 971-978

  Wheeler, Dennis ^a   Garcia Herrera R ^b   Vaquero, J M ^c   Chenoweth, M ^d   Mock, C J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^d University of South Carolina ^*

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; METEOROLOGY;

ATLANTIC HURRICANE; DOCUMENTARY SOURCES; HURRICANE RECONSTRUCTION; METHODOLOGICAL MODELING; NORTH ATLANTIC; OCEANIC REGIONS; OLD WORLDS; SOURCE MATERIAL;

HURRICANES;

EID: 69049121279     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009BAMS2649.1     Document Type: Article

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