Estimating annual numbers of Atlantic hurricanes missing from the HURDAT database (1878-1965) using ship track density

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1736-1746

  Vecchi, Gabriel A ^a   Knutson, Thomas R ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic Ocean; Databases; Hurricanes

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS; ATLANTIC HURRICANE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; DATABASES; LONG-TERM TREND; NORTH ATLANTIC; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SHIP TRAFFIC; SPARSE DENSITIES; STRONGLY CONNECTED; TRACK DENSITY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SHIPS; WATERWAY TRANSPORTATION;

HURRICANES;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARBON EMISSION; DATABASE; ESTIMATION METHOD; GREENHOUSE GAS; HURRICANE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 79955134578     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3810.1     Document Type: Article

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