Long-term variations of North Atlantic tropical cyclone activity downscaled from a coupled model simulation of the last millennium

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 13,383-13,392

  Kozar, Michael E ^a   Mann, Michael E ^b   Emanuel, Kerry A ^c   Evans, Jenni L ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate; North Atlantic; tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL STORAGE; OCEANOGRAPHY; RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ANTHROPOGENIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABLES; CLIMATE; CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; NORTH ATLANTIC; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL CYCLONE ACTIVITY;

HURRICANES;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIMESCALE; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84892494001     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JD020380     Document Type: Article

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