Predictors of tropical cyclone numbers and extreme hurricane intensities over the North Atlantic using generalized additive and linear models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 633-648

  Mestre, Olivier ^a   Hallegatte, Stéphanie ^b,c  

^a INSTITUT DE MATHÉMATIQUES DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c Centre International de Recherche sur lEnvironnement et le Developpement   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; STORMS; TROPICS;

ADDITIVE MODELS; CHANGE-POINT MODELS; GENERALIZED ADDITIVES; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; HURRICANE INTENSITY; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION INDEX; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

HURRICANES;

EXTREME EVENT; HURRICANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 64049094532     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2318.1     Document Type: Article

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