Quantifying the possible existence of undocumented Atlantic warm-core cyclones in NOAA/CIRES 20th Century Reanalysis data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Truchelut, Ryan E ^a   Hart, Robert E ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STORMS;

20TH CENTURY; ATLANTIC BASIN; DATA SETS; LONG-TERM TREND; REANALYSIS; SURFACE OBSERVATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; UNDER-SAMPLING;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA SET; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; NOAA SATELLITE; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TREND ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 79955611397     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL046756     Document Type: Article

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