Eastern Tropical Pacific hurricane variability and landfalls on Mexican coasts

Climate Research

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 221-234

  Martinez Sanchez, Julio N ^a   Cavazos, Tereza ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

AMO; Atlantic multidecadal oscillation; Eastern Tropical Pacific; El Ni o Southern oscillation; ENSO; Hurricanes; Mexico; Western hemisphere warm pool; WHWP

Indexed keywords

AMO; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC; ENSO; ME-XICO; WARM POOLS; WHWP;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; COASTAL ZONES; LAKES; STORMS;

HURRICANES;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CYCLOGENESIS; CYCLONE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HURRICANE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WARM POOL; WIND SHEAR;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

EID: 84891921481     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr01192     Document Type: Article

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