Objective identification of cyclones and their circulation intensity, and climatology

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 12, Issue 3 PART II, 1997, Pages 595-612

  Sinclair, Mark R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; STATISTICS; STORMS;

CONSTANT RADIUS SPATIAL FILTER; CYCLONE CIRCULATION INTENSITY; GRIDDED MEAN SEA LEVEL PRESSURE ANALYSIS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CYCLONE; ECMWF; IDENTIFICATION; STORM;

EID: 0031225180     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1997)012<0595:oiocat>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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