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North Atlantic Hurricane Climate Change Experiment

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The recent increase of North Atlantic TC activity has attracted considerable attention especially since the exceptional hurricane season of 2005. Causes for this increase have been hotly debated in an attempt to determine whether it is within a range of natural variability, the result of global warming, or merely a byproduct of an inhomogeneous TC record.

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  1. School of Earth Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Ferst Drive 311, Atlanta, GA, 30332-0340, USA

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Suzuki-Parker, A. (2012). North Atlantic Hurricane Climate Change Experiment. In: Uncertainties and Limitations in Simulating Tropical Cyclones. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25029-3_4

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