Quantifying interagency differences in tropical cyclone best-track wind speed estimates

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1459-1473

  Knapp, Kenneth R ^a   Kruk, Michael C ^b  

^a NOAA NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

^b STG Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Tropical cyclones; Wind

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DIFFERENCE; DATA AVAILABILITY; DATA SETS; OPERATIONAL PROCEDURES; OPERATIONAL TECHNIQUES; REANALYSIS; SPATIALLY INHOMOGENEOUS; TEMPORAL CHANGE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL CYCLONE INTENSITY; TROPICAL CYCLONES; WIND SPEED;

HURRICANES; STORMS; TIME SERIES;

TROPICS;

ESTIMATION METHOD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRACKING; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 77955532060     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR3123.1     Document Type: Article

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