Influence of tropical tropopause layer cooling on atlantic hurricane activity

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2288-2301

  Emanuel, Kerry ^a   Solomon, Susan ^a   Folini, Doris ^b   Davis, Sean ^c   Cagnazzo, Chiara ^d,e  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

^e CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; COOLING; HURRICANES; OCEANOGRAPHY; OZONE LAYER; SEA ICE; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

ATLANTIC HURRICANE; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL-CIRCULATION MODEL; HURRICANE ACTIVITY; SEA SURFACES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL CYCLONE ACTIVITY; TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE; TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE LAYERS;

TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; DOWNSCALING; HURRICANE; OUTFLOW; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPOPAUSE;

EID: 84876097701     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00242.1     Document Type: Article

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