A new method for estimating tropical cyclone wind speed probabilities

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1573-1591

  Demaria, Mark ^a   Knaff, John A ^a   Knabb, Richard ^a   Lauer, Chris ^b   Sampson, Charles R ^c   Demaria, Robert T ^d  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETERMINISTIC FORECASTS; ERROR DISTRIBUTIONS; HIGH CONFIDENCE; INTENSITY FORECASTS; MODEL PROBABILITIES; OPERATIONAL FORECASTS; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTS; PROBABILITY MODELS; SKILL SCORE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VERIFICATION RESULTS; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC; WIND SPEED; WIND STRUCTURE;

FORECASTING; HURRICANES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; STORMS; TROPICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ESTIMATION METHOD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 74549184436     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009WAF2222286.1     Document Type: Article

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