The roles of wind shear and thermal stratification in past and projected changes of Atlantic tropical cyclone activity

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 4723-4734

  Garner, Stephen T ^a,b   Held, Isaac M ^a   Knutson, Thomas ^a   Sirutis, Joseph ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBINED EFFECT; DOWN-SCALING; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; DYNAMICAL DOWNSCALING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL INDEX; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; THERMODYNAMIC PROFILES; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL CYCLONE ACTIVITY; TROPICAL STORMS; VERTICAL SHEAR; WARM CLIMATES; WESTERN ATLANTIC; WIND SHEARS;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERICS; GLOBAL WARMING; HURRICANES; STORMS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; STORM; STRATIFICATION; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND SHEAR;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (WEST); CARIBBEAN SEA;

EID: 70350012324     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2930.1     Document Type: Article

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