An updated Statistical Hurricane Intensity Prediction Scheme (SHIPS) for the Atlantic and eastern North Pacific basins

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 326-337

  DeMaria, Mark ^a,c   Kaplan, John ^b  

^a Data and Information Service   (United States)

^b Hurricane Research Division   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COASTAL ZONES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERRORS; HURRICANES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRACKING (POSITION);

FORECAST ERRORS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION TECHNIQUE; STATISTICAL HURRICANE INTENSITY PREDICTION SCHEME;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

FORECASTING METHOD; HURRICANE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

(NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032710897     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1999)014<0326:AUSHIP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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