On the factors affecting trends and variability in tropical cyclone potential intensity

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 8669-8677

  Wing, Allison A ^a,b   Emanuel, Kerry ^a   Solomon, Susan ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

potential intensity; tropical cyclone intensity; tropical cyclones; tropical tropopause layer

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; EFFICIENCY; OCEANOGRAPHY; STORMS; SURFACE WATERS; TEMPERATURE; TRANSISTOR TRANSISTOR LOGIC CIRCUITS; TROPICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AIR-SEA DISEQUILIBRIUM; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; POTENTIAL INTENSITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); THERMODYNAMIC EFFICIENCY; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL CYCLONE INTENSITY; TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE LAYERS;

HURRICANES;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; COOLING; DATA SET; DISEQUILIBRIUM; OUTFLOW; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; TREND ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPOPAUSE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84946576851     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL066145     Document Type: Article

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