Extremely intense hurricanes: Revisiting Webster et al. (2005) after 10 years

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 7621-7629

  Klotzbach, Philip J ^a   Landsea, Christopher W ^b  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Hurricanes; Hurricanes typhoons; Tropical variability; Tropics

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CLIMATE CHANGE; STORMS; TROPICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ACCUMULATED CYCLONE ENERGIES; HURRICANES/TYPHOONS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL VARIABILITY; UPWARD TREND; WARNING CENTERS;

HURRICANES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTREME EVENT; HURRICANE; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84947813015     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0188.1     Document Type: Article

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