A relationship between all Atlantic hurricanes and those that make landfall in the USA

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 639, 2009, Pages 371-379

  Coughlin, Katie ^a   Bellone, E ^a   Laepple, T ^b   Jewson, S ^a   Nzerem, K ^a  

^a RISK MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS   (United Kingdom)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hurricanes; Predictions

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; ATLANTIC BASIN; ATLANTIC HURRICANE; HURRICANE ACTIVITY; INTER-ANNUAL PREDICTIONS; LANDFALLING; MITIGATION MEASURES; POLICY MAKERS; PREDICTIONS;

FORECASTING; LANDFORMS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

HURRICANES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANNUAL VARIATION; COASTAL ZONE; ESTIMATION METHOD; HURRICANE; OCEAN BASIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67649427482     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.367     Document Type: Article

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