Medicanes in an ocean-atmosphere coupled regional climate model

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2189-2201

  Akhtar, N ^a,b   Brauch, J ^b,c   Dobler, A ^d   Beranger K ^e   Ahrens, B ^a,b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^c DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^e IMSIA UMR CNRS 9219 EdF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; HURRICANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84940328714     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-14-2189-2014     Document Type: Article

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