Atlantic major hurricanes, 1995-2005 - Characteristics based on best-track, aircraft and IR images

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 5865-5888

  Zehr, Raymond M ^a,b   Knaff, John A ^a  

^a NESDIS   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; INFRARED IMAGING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA LEVEL; STATISTICS; STORMS; TRACKING (POSITION); WIND;

INTENSITY MEASUREMENT; MAXIMUM SURFACE WIND; MINIMUM SEA LEVEL PRESSURE;

HURRICANES;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; HURRICANE EVENT; INFRARED IMAGERY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; STORM TRACK; SURFACE WIND;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 38349193169     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI1652.1     Document Type: Article

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