The GFDL Hurricane Prediction System and its performance in the 1995 hurricane season

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1306-1322

  Kurihara, Yoshio ^a   Tuleya, Robert E ^a   Bender, Morris A ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION; HURRICANE; STORM TRACK; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

EID: 0031692888     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<1306:TGHPSA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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