Oceanic heat content variability in the eastern pacific ocean for hurricane intensity forecasting

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2110-2131

  Shay, Lynn K ^a   Brewster, Jodi K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Forecasting; Hurricanes; Oceanic variability; Pacific Ocean

Indexed keywords

AIR SEA FLUX; ATLANTIC OCEAN; EASTERN PACIFIC; EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN; EXPENDABLE BATHYTHERMOGRAPHS; HURRICANE INTENSITY; HURRICANE INTENSITY FORECASTING; IN-SITU; IN-SITU DATA; INTENSITY CHANGE; MEAN-SQUARE; MULTIPLE PLATFORMS; OCEAN HEAT CONTENT; OCEANIC HEAT CONTENTS; OCEANIC MIXED LAYERS; OCEANIC VARIABILITY; PACIFIC OCEAN; RADAR ALTIMETERS; REDUCED-GRAVITY MODEL; SEA-SURFACE HEIGHT ANOMALIES; STATISTICAL HURRICANE INTENSITY PREDICTION SCHEME; STRATIFICATION PARAMETERS; SUB-SURFACE OCEAN; TROPICAL CYCLONE INTENSITY CHANGE; TROPICAL OCEAN;

CLIMATOLOGY; ENTHALPY; HURRICANES; ISOTHERMS; OCEAN STRUCTURES; SATELLITES; SHIPS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; ESTIMATION METHOD; FORECASTING METHOD; HURRICANE; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; ISOTHERM; MIXED LAYER; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL VARIATION; STRATIFICATION; UPPER OCEAN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

EID: 77955585460     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3189.1     Document Type: Article

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