Projected Atlantic hurricane surge threat from rising temperatures

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 5369-5373

  Grinsted, Aslak ^a,b   Moore, John C ^a,c,d   Jevrejeva, Svetlana ^a,e  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Flood; Hazard

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HURRICANE; INDIAN OCEAN; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUASI BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SAHEL RAINFALL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYCLONIC STORMS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TEMPERATURE; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84875825466     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1209980110     Document Type: Article

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