Retrospective forecasts of the hurricane season using a global atmospheric model assuming persistence of SST anomalies

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3858-3868

  Zhao, Ming ^a   Held, Isaac M ^a   Vecchi, Gabriel A ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; DYNAMICAL MODEL; EAST PACIFIC; GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; HURRICANE ACTIVITY; HURRICANE FREQUENCY; HURRICANE SEASON; LARGE PARTS; NORTH ATLANTIC; OCEAN MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SEASONAL FORECASTS; SIMPLE LINEAR REGRESSION; SST ANOMALIES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

HURRICANES;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HURRICANE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

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

EID: 77958494818     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3366.1     Document Type: Article

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