Sensitivity of inland decay of North Atlantic tropical cyclones to soil parameters

Natural Hazards

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1527-1542

  Kishtawal, Chandra M ^a,b   Niyogi, Dev ^b   Kumar, Anil ^c,d   Bozeman, Monica Laureano ^b   Kellner, Olivia ^b  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Hurricane intensity; Inland decay; Land surface feedback; Land falling cyclones; Soil heat flux; Tropical cyclone

Indexed keywords

BULK DENSITY; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE PREDICTION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; HEAT FLUX; HURRICANE; LAND SURFACE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL PROPERTY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864381508     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-011-0015-2     Document Type: Article

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