Forecasting tropical cyclogenesis over the Atlantic basin using large-scale data

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 131, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2927-2940

  Hennon, Christopher C ^a   Hobgood, Jay S ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; DATA REDUCTION; HURRICANES; PROBABILITY; TROPICS;

TROPICAL CYCLOGENESIS (TCG)];

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CYCLOGENESIS; DATA SET; FORECASTING METHOD; HURRICANE; PREDICTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0346655448     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2003)131<2927:FTCOTA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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