The national hurricane research project: 50 years of research, rough, rides, and name changes

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1566-1588

  Dorst, Neal M ^a  

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; RESEARCH; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC HURRICANE; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

HURRICANES;

EID: 36048939850     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-88-10-1566     Document Type: Article

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