Recent historically low global tropical cyclone activity

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 14, 2011, Pages

  Maue, Ryan N ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HURRICANES; TROPICS;

ACCUMULATED CYCLONE ENERGIES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH PACIFIC; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL CYCLONE ACTIVITY;

STORMS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HISTORICAL RECORD; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 79960793910     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047711     Document Type: Article

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