An example of the value of strong climatological signals in tropical cyclone track forecasting: Hurricane Ivan (2004)

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1568-1577

  Barrett, Bradford S ^a   Leslie, Lance M ^a   Fiedler, Brian H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ERROR STATISTICS; HURRICANES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; TRACK FORECASTS; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATOLOGY; HURRICANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 33744754137     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3135.1     Document Type: Article

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