Improvement of advanced microwave sounding unit tropical cyclone intensity and size estimation algorithms

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1573-1581

  Demuth, Julie L ^a,c   DeMaria, Mark ^b   Knaff, John A ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SEA LEVEL; SOUNDING APPARATUS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT (AMSU); MEAN ABSOLUTE ERRORS;

METEOROLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

EID: 33845989111     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAM2429.1     Document Type: Article

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