The poleward migration of the location of tropical cyclone maximum intensity
@article{Kossin2014ThePM, title={The poleward migration of the location of tropical cyclone maximum intensity}, author={James P. Kossin and Kerry A. Emanuel and Gabriel A. Vecchi}, journal={Nature}, year={2014}, volume={509}, pages={349-352} }
Temporally inconsistent and potentially unreliable global historical data hinder the detection of trends in tropical cyclone activity. This limits our confidence in evaluating proposed linkages between observed trends in tropical cyclones and in the environment. Here we mitigate this difficulty by focusing on a metric that is comparatively insensitive to past data uncertainty, and identify a pronounced poleward migration in the average latitude at which tropical cyclones have achieved their…
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