An updated climatology of tropical cyclone impacts on the southwestern United States

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4322-4336

  Wood, Kimberly M ^a   Ritchie, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; RAIN;

EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION ANALYSIS; GENERAL CIRCULATION; OSCILLATION PHENOMENON; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SIGNIFICANT PATTERNS;

HURRICANES;

CLIMATOLOGY; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); UNITED STATES;

EID: 84896967139     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00078.1     Document Type: Article

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