The extremely active 1995 Atlantic hurricane season: Environmental conditions and verification of seasonal forecasts

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1174-1193

  Landsea, Christopher W ^a,b   Bell, Gerald D ^b   Gray, William M ^c   Goldenberg, Stanley B ^b  

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Department of Systems Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLONE; HURRICANE; STORM;

CYCLONE; HURRICANE; STORM; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

ATLANTIC;

EID: 0031690508     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<1174:TEAAHS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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