Climate changes of Atlantic tropical cyclone formation derived from Twentieth-Century reanalysis

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 8995-9005

  Wang, Ruifang ^a   Wu, Liguang ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TROPICAL ATLANTIC; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; VERTICAL WIND SHEAR;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; HURRICANES; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CYCLOGENESIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GLOBAL WARMING; NOAA SATELLITE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND SHEAR;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84888028325     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00056.1     Document Type: Article

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