Contrasting high North-East Pacific tropical cyclone activity with low North Atlantic activity

Southeastern Geographer

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 83-98

  Collins, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hurricanes; Inter basin relationships; Teleconnections; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HURRICANE; TELECONNECTION; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

EID: 77951954409     PISSN: 0038366X     EISSN: 15496929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/sgo.0.0069     Document Type: Article

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