A document-based 318-year record of tropical cyclones in the Lesser Antilles, 1690-2007

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Chenoweth, Michael ^a   Divine, Dmitry ^b,c  

^a Norwegian Polar Institute ^*  (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

EID: 71749110280     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GC002066     Document Type: Article

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