A perturbation method for hurricane ensemble predictions

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 447-469

  Zhang, Zhan ^a   Krishnamurti, T N ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION (EOF) ANALYSIS; HURRICANE ENSEMBLE PREDICTIONS;

HURRICANES;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FORECASTING METHOD; HURRICANE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032742880     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<0447:APMFHE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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