Oceanic control of Northeast Pacific hurricane activity at interannual timescales

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Balaguru, Karthik ^a   Ruby Leung, L ^a   Yoon, Jin Ho ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

interannual variability; Northeast Pacific hurricanes; ocean dynamics; ocean atmosphere interactions; sea surface temperature; thermocline depth; upper ocean heat content

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ENTHALPY; LINEAR REGRESSION; OCEANOGRAPHY; STREAM FLOW;

INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; OCEAN DYNAMICS; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); THERMOCLINE DEPTH;

HURRICANES;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; DISSIPATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HURRICANE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMOCLINE; TIMESCALE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

EID: 84891917485     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/044009     Document Type: Article

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