The impact of observational technology on climate database quality: Tropical cyclones in the Tasman Sea

Journal of Climate

Volumn 16, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 2640-2645

  Buckley, Bruce W ^a   Leslie, Lance M ^b   Speer, Milton S ^a  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; STORMS; TROPICAL ENGINEERING;

TROPICAL CYCLONES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATOLOGY; DATABASE; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

TASMAN SEA;

EID: 0141794681     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<2640:TIOOTO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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