Trend analysis with a new global record of tropical cyclone intensity

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 9960-9976

  Kossin, James P ^a,b   Olander, Timothy L ^b   Knapp, Kenneth R ^a  

^a NOAA NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Decadal variability; Hurricanes typhoons; Trends; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DECADAL VARIABILITY; HURRICANES/TYPHOONS; TRENDS; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; LINEAR MATRIX INEQUALITIES; STORMS;

HURRICANES;

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; HURRICANE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SATELLITE DATA; TREND ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TYPHOON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (SOUTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 84890234156     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00262.1     Document Type: Article

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