Seasonality and return periods of landfalling atlantic basin hurricanes

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 271-282

  Parisi, Francis ^a   Lund, Robert ^b  

^a Structured Finance Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Central pressures; Extreme values; Peaks over threshold; Poisson process; Wind speeds

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034416986     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-842X.00127     Document Type: Article

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