Seasonal prediction models for North Atlantic basin hurricane location

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 125, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1780-1791

  Lehmiller, G S ^a,b   Kimberlain, T B ^a   Elsner, J B ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b StatSoft Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CLIMATOLOGY; COASTAL ZONES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL TESTS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BOOTSTRAP TECHNIQUES; HURRICANE ACTIVITY FORECASTS; MULTIVARIATE DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS;

HURRICANES;

EID: 0031212206     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1997)125<1780:SPMFNA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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