Model projections of atmospheric steering of Sandy-like superstorms

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

Volumn 110, Issue 38, 2013, Pages 15211-15215

  Barnes, Elizabeth A ^a,b   Polvani, Lorenzo M ^b,c   Sobel, Adam H ^b,c  

^a Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Blocking; Climate change; Global climate models; Hurricane Sandy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE GAS; HURRICANE; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASHORE;

EID: 84884342999     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1308732110     Document Type: Article

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