Hurricane track variability and secular potential intensity trends

Climatic Change

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 329-337

  Kossin, James P ^a   Camargo, Suzana J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT ENVIRONMENT; EXTREME VALUE; HURRICANE ACTIVITY; HURRICANE INTENSITY; HURRICANE SEASON; INTENSITY CHANGE; MAXIMUM INTENSITIES; NORTH ATLANTIC; POWER DISSIPATION; REGIONAL VARIABILITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SECULAR TREND; TIME-SCALES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; STORMS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPICS;

HURRICANES;

EID: 70350731200     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-009-9748-2     Document Type: Letter

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