On the classification of extreme atlantic hurricanes utilizing mid-twentieth-century monitoring capabilities

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 4461-4475

  Hagen, Andrew B ^a   Landsea, Christopher W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate records; Climatology; Hurricanes typhoons; In situ atmospheric observations; Surface observations

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING; ATLANTIC HURRICANE; ATMOSPHERIC OBSERVATIONS; CLIMATE RECORD; HURRICANE ACTIVITY; LANDFALLING; MONITORING CAPABILITIES; SURFACE OBSERVATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VARIABILITY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT;

HURRICANES;

CLIMATOLOGY; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL WARMING; HURRICANE; MONITORING; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TYPHOON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84865158738     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00420.1     Document Type: Article

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