Five-day tropical cyclone track forecasts in the North Atlantic basin

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1005-1015

  Aberson, Sim D ^a,b  

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; FORECASTING; HURRICANES; STATISTICAL METHODS; TROPICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CYCLONE TRACKS;

STORMS;

FORECASTING METHOD; HISTORICAL RECORD; MODELING; STORM TRACK; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH;

EID: 0032435550     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1998)013<1005:FDTCTF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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