A pronounced bias in tropical cyclone minimum sea level pressure estimation based on the Dvorak technique

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 165-173

  Kossin, James P ^a   Velden, Christopher S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR CORRECTION; ERROR STATISTICS; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SEA LEVEL; STORMS; WIND;

ATLANTIC TROPICAL ANALYSIS CENTERS (TACS); MINIMUM SEA LEVEL PRESSURE (MSLP); TROPOPAUSE TEMPERATURE;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ESTIMATION METHOD; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

EID: 1842587692     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2004)132<0165:APBITC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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