Population Influences on Tornado Reports in the United States

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 571-579

  Anderson, Christopher J ^a,d   Wikle, Christopher K ^b   Zhou, Qin ^b   Royle, J Andrew ^c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL BAYESIAN MODEL; MISCLASSIFICATION;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SAMPLING; TORNADOES;

METEOROLOGY;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DENSITY; SAMPLING; TORNADO;

NORTH AMERICA; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34447630104     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF997.1     Document Type: Article

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