Is the recorded increase in short-duration North Atlantic tropical storms spurious?

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Villarini, Gabriele ^a,b   Vecchi, Gabriel A ^c   Knutson, Thomas R ^c   Smith, James A ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b Towers Watson   (United Kingdom)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; TROPICS;

19TH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; CLIMATE SIGNALS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY/CHANGE; NORTH ATLANTIC; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL STORMS;

STORMS;

CLIMATE VARIATION; NINETEENTH CENTURY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 79958040424     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD015493     Document Type: Article

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