A new approach to forecasting typhoon frequency over the western North Pacific

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 974-986

  Fan, Ke ^a   Wang, Huijun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS-VALIDATION TESTS; FORECAST MODEL; HINDCASTS; MULTI-LINEAR REGRESSION; NEW APPROACHES; OPERATIONAL FORECASTING; PREDICTION MODEL; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERRORS; TYPHOON FREQUENCY; VALIDATION PERIODS; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

HURRICANES;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; FORECASTING METHOD; HINDCASTING; MODELING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TYPHOON;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 74549129385     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009WAF2222194.1     Document Type: Article

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