A revised tropical cyclone rapid intensification index for the Atlantic and eastern North Pacific basins

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 220-241

  Kaplan, John ^a   DeMaria, Mark ^b   Knaff, John A ^b  

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC BASIN; CORE CONVECTION; EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC; FALSE ALARM RATIO; HURRICANE SEASON; INTENSITY CHANGE; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY OF DETECTION; RAPID INTENSIFICATION; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; STATISTICAL HURRICANE INTENSITY PREDICTION SCHEME; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VERTICAL SHEAR;

CLIMATOLOGY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FACE RECOGNITION; HURRICANES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SHIPS; STORMS; TROPICS;

FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATOLOGY; ESTIMATION METHOD; HURRICANE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PROBABILITY; SYMMETRY; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 77953569301     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009WAF2222280.1     Document Type: Article

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