On the ability of global ensemble prediction systems to predict tropical cyclone track probabilities

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 659-680

  Majumdar, Sharanya J ^a   Finocchio, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Ensembles; Forecasting techniques; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

DETERMINISTIC MODELS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; FORECASTING TECHNIQUES; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTS; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

HURRICANES; PROBABILITY; STORMS; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING; TROPICS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; LONG RANGE FORECAST; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; STORM TRACK; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

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

EID: 77955522550     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009WAF2222327.1     Document Type: Article

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