Influence of local and remote SST on North Atlantic tropical cyclone potential intensity

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 40, Issue 5-6, 2013, Pages 1515-1529

  Camargo, Suzana J ^a   Ting, Mingfang ^a   Kushnir, Yochanan ^a  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

Hurricanes; Local and remote effects; Potential intensity; Sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CLIMATE MODELING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HURRICANE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84874318235     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1536-4     Document Type: Article

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