Reply to comments on "Multiyear predictions of North Atlantic hurricane frequency: Promise and limitations"

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 490-492

  Vecchi, Gabriel A ^a   Msadek, Rym ^a,b   Anderson, Whit ^a   Chang, You Soon ^c   Delworth, Thomas ^a   Dixon, Keith ^a   Gudgel, Rich ^a   Rosati, Anthony ^a   Stern, Bill ^a   Villarini, Gabriele ^d   Wittenberg, Andrew ^a   Yang, Xiasong ^a,b   Zeng, Fanrong ^a   Zhang, Rong ^a   Zhang, Shaoqing ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Kongju National University   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate prediction; Hurricanes typhoons

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892450138     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00381.1     Document Type: Letter

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