Environmental patterns associated with active and inactive Caribbean hurricane seasons

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2146-2160

  Jury, Mark R ^a   Enfield, David B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EAST PACIFIC; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; HADLEY CELLS; HEAT BUDGET ANALYSIS; HURRICANE SEASON; LEAD TIME; NCEP REANALYSIS; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; STATISTICAL ALGORITHM; VENEZUELA;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

HURRICANES;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; HADLEY CELL; HEAT BUDGET; HURRICANE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LA NINA; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 77953699907     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI3201.1     Document Type: Article

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