Sensitivity of limiting hurricane intensity to SST in the atlantic from observations and GCMs

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 5949-5957

  Elsner, James B ^a   Strazzo, Sarah E ^a   Jagger, Thomas H ^a   Larow, Timothy ^a   Zhao, Ming ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HIGH-RESOLUTION ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; HURRICANE INTENSITY; LOW SENSITIVITY; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEAN TEMPERATURE; STANDARD ERRORS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; OCEANOGRAPHY;

HURRICANES;

CLIMATE MODELING; HURRICANE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VORTICITY; WIND FIELD; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84881640315     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00433.1     Document Type: Article

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