Extreme value statistics for North Atlantic cyclones

Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 347-360

  Sienz, Frank ^a   Schneidereit, Andrea ^a   Blender, Richard ^a   Fraedrich, Klaus ^a   Lunkeit, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; CYCLONE; GEOPOTENTIAL; MODEL VALIDATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SEASONALITY; SIMULATION; VORTICITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 77958547564     PISSN: 02806495     EISSN: 16000870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0870.2010.00449.x     Document Type: Article

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