Monitoring and understanding changes in extremes: Extratropical storms, winds, and waves

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 377-386

  Vose, Russell S ^a   Applequist, Scott ^a   Bourassa, Mark A ^b   Pryor, Sara C ^c   Barthelmie, Rebecca J ^c   Blanton, Brian ^d   Bromirski, Peter D ^e   Brooks, Harold E ^f   Degaetano, Arthur T ^g   Dole, Randall M ^h   Easterling, David R ^a   Jensen, Robert E ⁱ   Karl, Thomas R ^a   Katz, Richard W ^j   Klink, Katherine ^k   Kruk, Michael C ^l   Kunkel, Kenneth E ^m   Maccracken, Michael C ⁿ   Peterson, Thomas C ^a   Shein, Karsten ^a   Thomas, Bridget R ^o   Walsh, John E ^p   Wang, Xiaolan L ^o   Wehner, Michael F ^q   Wuebbles, Donald J ^r   Young, Robert S ^s   more..

^a NOAA NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Renaissance Computing Institute   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^g Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^h NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ US ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

^j NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^l Earth Resources Technology Inc   (United States)

^m National Climatic Data Center   (United States)

ⁿ Climate Institute   (United States)

^o ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^p UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^q LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^r UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^s WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WIND;

CLIMATE EXTREMES; EXTRATROPICAL STORMS; EXTREME WAVES; EXTREME WINDS; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; PRESSURE-BASED; SOCIETAL IMPACTS; UNIFORM SPACES;

STORMS;

EID: 84900311678     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00162.1     Document Type: Article

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