Updated 6-11-month prediction of Atlantic basin seasonal hurricane activity

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 917-934

  Klotzbach, Philip J ^a   Gray, William M ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; HURRICANE EFFECTS; OSCILLATIONS; RAIN; STATISTICAL METHODS;

JACKKNIFE HINDCAST VARIENCE; NET TROPICAL CYCLONE (NTC); NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION (NAO); QUASI BIENNIAL OSCILLATION (QBO);

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; FORECASTING METHOD; HURRICANE; LONG RANGE FORECAST; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 13644274799     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2004)019<0917:UMPOAB>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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