Variability of the Atlantic Meridional Mode during the Atlantic hurricane season

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1409-1424

  Smirnov, Dimitry ^a   Vimont, Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic Ocean; Coupled models; Hurricanes; Sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATLANTIC HURRICANE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BAROCLINIC; BAROCLINIC CIRCULATION; BOREAL SPRING; CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; COUPLED MODELS; CYCLONIC CIRCULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; LOW-LEVEL WINDS; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; MODELING STUDIES; OBSERVATIONAL ANALYSIS; OCEAN MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SLAB OCEAN MODELS; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; SST ANOMALIES; TROPICAL ATLANTIC; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL CYCLONE ACTIVITY; VERTICAL WIND SHEAR;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXPERIMENTS; HURRICANES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SHEAR FLOW; STORMS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; BAROCLINIC MOTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HURRICANE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND SHEAR;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 79955044667     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3549.1     Document Type: Article

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