A Poisson regression model of tropical cyclogenesis for the Australian-southwest Pacific Ocean region

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 440-455

  McDonnell, Katrina A ^a   Holbrook, Neil J ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METEOROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STORMS; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND STRESS;

LONGITUDE SPATIAL GRID; TROPICAL CYCLOGENESIS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CYCLOGENESIS; FORECASTING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; POISSON RATIO; REGRESSION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST);

EID: 1842790078     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2004)019<0440:APRMOT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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