Cluster analysis of tropical cyclone tracks in the Southern Hemisphere

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 897-917

  Ramsay, Hamish A ^a   Camargo, Suzana J ^b   Kim, Daehyun ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; ENSO; MJO; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; SEASONALITY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STORM TRACK; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VORTICITY; ZONAL FLOW;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (SOUTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 84864381919     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1225-8     Document Type: Article

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