El Niño-Southern Oscillation's impact on Atlantic basin hurricanes and U.S. Landfalls

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1252-1263

  Klotzbach, Philip J ^a  

^a Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and School of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC BASIN; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; CLIMATE PARAMETERS; CLIMATE SIGNALS; EAST COAST; ENSO EVENTS; FLORIDA; GULF COAST; MODULATION SIGNALS; NEGATIVE PHASE; NORTH CAROLINA; PROBABILITY DIFFERENCE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TROPICAL ATLANTIC; TROPICAL CYCLONE ACTIVITY; VERTICAL WIND SHEAR;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; HURRICANES; STORMS; TROPICS;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HURRICANE; LA NINA; OCEAN BASIN; PROBABILITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND SHEAR;

ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; ATLANTIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; GULF COAST [UNITED STATES]; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955014027     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3799.1     Document Type: Article

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