On the modelling of over-ocean hurricane surface winds and their uncertainty

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 642, 2009, Pages 1350-1365

  Khare, S P ^a   Bonazzi, A ^a   West, N ^b   Bellone, E ^a   Jewson, S ^a  

^a RISK MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS   (United Kingdom)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary layer model; EOFs

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; BALANCE MODEL; BOUNDARY-LAYER MODEL; COVARIANCE MODELS; CROSS VALIDATION; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; EOFS; OCEAN SURFACE WINDS; PARAMETERIZED; RESIDUAL FIELD; SURFACE WIND FIELDS; SURFACE WINDS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); VALIDATION DATA; VECTOR FIELDS; WIND MODELS;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HURRICANES; NANOFLUIDICS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY LAYER; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HURRICANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PREDICTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WIND FIELD; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 70149112542     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.442     Document Type: Article

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