Tropical cyclones in the SW Indian Ocean. Part 1: Inter-annual variability and statistical prediction

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 106, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 149-162

  Chang Seng, Denis S ^a   Jury, Mark R ^b,c  

^a UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZULULAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DECADAL VARIATION; DROUGHT; GEOPOTENTIAL; JET STREAM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ROSSBY WAVE; TELECONNECTION; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; ZONAL WIND;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (SOUTHWEST);

EID: 77953121679     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: 14365065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-009-0055-2     Document Type: Article

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