Are Greenhouse Gas Signals of Northern Hemisphere winter extra-tropical cyclone activity dependent on the identification and tracking algorithm?

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 61-68

  Ulbrich, Uwe ^a   Leckebusch, Gregor C ^b   Grieger, Jens ^a   Schuster, Mareike ^a   Akperov, Mirseid ^c   Bardin, Mikhail Yu ^d,e   Feng, Yang ^f   Gulev, Sergey ^g,h   Inatsu, Masaru ⁱ   Keay, Kevin ^j,k   Kew, Sarah F ^l   Liberato, Margarida L R ^m,n   Lionello, Piero ^o,p   Mokhov, Igor I ^c   Neu, Urs ^q   Pinto, Joaquim G ^r   Raible, Christoph C ^s   Reale, Marco ^o,t   Rudeva, Irina ^g,j   Simmonds, Ian ^j   Tilinina, Natalia D ^g,h   Trigo, Isabel F ^m,u   Ulbrich, Sven ^r   Wang, Xiaolan L ^f   Wernli, Heini ^v   more..

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c OBUKHOV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^e RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^f ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^g SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^h MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

ⁱ HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^j UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^k BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^l WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^m UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^o UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^p CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

^q Akademie der Naturwissenschaften Schweiz   (Switzerland)

^r UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^s UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^t UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^u INSTITUTO PORTUGUÊS DO MAR E DA ATMOSFERA   (Portugal)

^v ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

Climate change; ECHAM5; Extra tropical cyclones; IMILAST

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; ECHAM5; EXTRA-TROPICAL CYCLONES; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; IMILAST; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; STANDARD INPUT; TRACKING ALGORITHM;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREENHOUSE GASES; HURRICANES; STORMS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYCLONE; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; GREENHOUSE GAS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; REGIONAL PATTERN; STORM TRACK; TRACKING;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); BARENTS SEA; GREENLAND SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NORTH AMERICA; NORWEGIAN SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84877712180     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2013/0420     Document Type: Article

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