Predicting summertime Caribbean pressure in early April

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 13, Issue 3 PART2, 1998, Pages 740-752

  Knaff, John A ^a,b  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA LEVEL PRESSURE ANOMALY (SLPA);

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; FORECASTING METHOD; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CARIBBEAN SEA;

EID: 0032173178     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1998)013<0740:pscpie>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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