Climate modulation of north atlantic hurricane tracks

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3057-3076

  Kossin, James P ^a   Camargo, Suzana J ^b   Sitkowski, Matthew ^c  

^a NOAA/National Climatic Data Center   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN EASTERLY WAVES; BAROCLINIC; BROAD SPECTRUM; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLUSTER MEMBERSHIPS; ENVIRONMENTAL FIELDS; FOUR-GROUP; GULF OF MEXICO; LANDFALLING; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; OCEAN BASINS; POWER DISSIPATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEASONALITY; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TIME-SCALES; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL STORMS; TROPICAL SYSTEMS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; HURRICANES; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEANOGRAPHY; STORMS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

TROPICS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; DATABASE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HURRICANE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONALITY; STORM TRACK; WIND VELOCITY; ZONAL WIND;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 77954349988     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3497.1     Document Type: Article

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