An analysis of long-term relationships among count statistics and metrics of synthetic tropical cyclones downscaled from CMIP5 models

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 120, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 7506-7519

  Reed, Andra J ^a   Mann, Michael E ^a   Emanuel, Kerry A ^b   Titley, David W ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF COAST [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84940459158     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015JD023357     Document Type: Article

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