Multiyear predictions of north atlantic hurricane frequency: Promise and limitations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 5337-5357

  Vecchi, Gabriel A ^a   Msadek, Rym ^a   Anderson, Whit ^a   Chang, You Soon ^a   Delworth, Thomas ^a   Dixon, Keith ^a   Gudgel, Rich ^a   Rosati, Anthony ^a   Stern, Bill ^a   Villarini, Gabriele ^b   Wittenberg, Andrew ^a   Yang, Xiasong ^a   Zeng, Fanrong ^a   Zhang, Rong ^a   Zhang, Shaoqing ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic Ocean; Climate change; Climate prediction; Climate variability; Hurricanes typhoons; Multidecadal variability

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; HURRICANES/TYPHOONS; MULTIDECADAL VARIABILITY;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HURRICANES; OCEANOGRAPHY; TROPICS;

FORECASTING;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HURRICANE; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TYPHOON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84878975627     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00464.1     Document Type: Article

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