Improving multiseason forecasts of North Atlantic hurricane activity

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1209-1219

  Elsner, James B ^a   Jagger, Thomas H ^a   Dickinson, Michael ^b   Rowe, Dail ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Accurate Environmental Forecasting Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

HURRICANE ACTIVITY; MULTISEASON FORECASTS; REGRESSION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

HURRICANES;

ALGORITHM; HURRICANE; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 44349159008     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI1731.1     Document Type: Article

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