On the impact of central Pacific warming events on Atlantic tropical storm activity

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 17, 2010, Pages

  Lee, Sang Ki ^a,b   Wang, Chunzai ^b   Enfield, David B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; HURRICANES; TROPICS;

ATLANTIC HURRICANE; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; AVERAGE FREQUENCY; CARIBBEAN SEA; CENTRAL AMERICA; CONVECTIVE INSTABILITIES; CYCLONE ACTIVITY; DATA ANALYSIS; ENSEMBLE MODELS; GULF OF MEXICO; MULTIPLE SET; TROPICAL CYCLONE ACTIVITY; TROPICAL STORMS; VERTICAL WIND SHEAR; WARM POOLS;

STORMS;

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL WARMING; HURRICANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; STORM;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 77956451196     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL044459     Document Type: Article

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