Influence of Tropical Tropopause Layer Cooling on Atlantic Hurricane Activity

Virtually all metrics of Atlantic tropical cyclone activity show substantial increases over the past two decades. It is argued here that cooling near the tropical tropopause and the associated decrease in tropical cyclone outflow temperature contributed to the observed increase in tropical cyclone p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Solomon, Susan, Folini, Doris, Davis, Sean, Cagnazzo, Chiara, Emanuel, Kerry Andrew
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Meteorological Society 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81286
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2020-7581
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2066-2082