Hurricane names: A bunch of hot air?

Weather and Climate Extremes

Volumn 12, Issue , 2015, Pages 80-84

  Smith, Gary ^a  

^a POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Data grubbing; Hurricanes; Sexism

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; HURRICANE EVENT; NOMENCLATURE; PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84949636001     PISSN: 22120947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wace.2015.11.006     Document Type: Article

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