Hurricane track forecasting with OMEGA

Natural Hazards

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 457-470

  Bacon, David P ^a   Ahmad, Nash'at N ^a   Dunn, Thomas J ^a   Gopalakrishnan, S G ^a   Hall, Mary S ^a   Sarma, Ananthakrishna ^a  

^a SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive grids; Geophysical fluid dynamics; Hurricane forecasting; Numerical weather prediction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE MODELING; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HURRICANE; NUMERICAL METHOD; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STORM TRACK; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 34249285151     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-006-9054-5     Document Type: Article

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