Atlantic hurricane season of 2008

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1975-2001

  Brown, Daniel P ^a   Beven, John L ^a   Franklin, James L ^a   Blake, Eric S ^a  

^a NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic Ocean; Hurricanes

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC BASIN; ATLANTIC HURRICANE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; DEATH TOLLS; GULF COAST; HEAVY RAINS; INTENSITY FORECASTS; LEAD TIME; MEAN ERRORS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SIMPSON; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL DEPRESSIONS; TROPICAL STORMS;

ERRORS; FORECASTING; OCEANOGRAPHY; STORMS; TROPICS;

HURRICANES;

ERROR ANALYSIS; HURRICANE; STORM TRACK; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 77954374269     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR3174.1     Document Type: Article

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