Prediction of August Atlantic basin hurricane activity

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1044-1060

  Blake, Eric S ^a,b   Gray, William M ^a  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b NOAA National Weather Service Jacksonville   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY; HURRICANES; SIGNAL DETECTION; STORMS; TROPICAL ENGINEERING; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND EFFECTS;

ATLANTIC BASIN; EQUATORIAL WINDS; HURRICANE FORECASTING; NET TROPICAL CYLONES (NTC);

RIVER BASIN PROJECTS;

FORECASTING METHOD; HURRICANE; PREDICTION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 11344288450     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/814.1     Document Type: Article

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