Impacts of non-canonical El Niño patterns on Atlantic hurricane activity

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 14, 2012, Pages

  Larson, Sarah ^a   Lee, Sang Ki ^a,b   Wang, Chunzai ^b   Chung, Eui Seok ^a   Enfield, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HURRICANES; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

ATLANTIC HURRICANE; ATMOSPHERIC STATIC STABILITY; KEY FACTORS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SST ANOMALIES; SUPPRESSING EFFECTS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL WIND SHEAR; WIND SHEARS;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

EL NINO; HURRICANE EVENT; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STATIC RESPONSE; TROPOSPHERE; WARMING; WIND SHEAR;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84864437934     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052595     Document Type: Article

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