Visual representations of the spatial relationship between Bermuda High strengths and hurricane tracks

Cartographic Perspectives

Volumn , Issue 56, 2007, Pages 37-51

  Knowles, Jason T ^a   Leitner, Michael ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bermuda high hypothesis; Geographic visualization; Hurricane tracks; Kernel density estimation

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HURRICANE; MAPPING METHOD; NOAA SATELLITE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 34247345283     PISSN: 10489053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14714/CP56.316     Document Type: Article

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