Classifying north atlantic tropical cyclone tracks by mass moments

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 5481-5494

  Nakamura, Jennifer ^a   Lall, Upmanu ^b   Kushnir, Yochanan ^a   Camargo, Suzana J ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLONE TRACKS; K-MEANS; LIFE SPAN; MASS MOMENT; NORTH ATLANTIC; SEASONAL PATTERNS; SECOND MOMENTS; SPATIAL CURVES; TRACK SHAPE; TREND ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND SPEED;

HURRICANES; LOCATION; STORMS; TROPICS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; STORM TRACK; TREND ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 76649106743     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2828.1     Document Type: Article

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