A real-time hurricane surface wind forecasting model: Formulation and verification

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1355-1370

  Xie, Lian ^a   Bao, Shaowu ^a   Pietrafesa, Leonard J ^a   Foley, Kristen ^a   Fuentes, Montserrat ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HURRICANES; OPTIMIZATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL METHODS; WIND;

ASYMMETRIC MODEL; PROGNOSTIC MODELING; WIND SPEED;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

HURRICANE; MODEL; REAL TIME; SURFACE WIND; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

LILIUM;

EID: 33744768381     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3126.1     Document Type: Article

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