Extended-range seasonal hurricane forecasts for the North Atlantic with a hybrid dynamical-statistical model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 21, 2010, Pages

  Kim, Hye Mi ^a   Webster, Peter J ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; HURRICANES; OCEANOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODEL; DATA SETS; EAST PACIFIC; EMPIRICAL PREDICTION MODELS; FORECAST MODEL; HINDCASTS; HURRICANE ACTIVITY; HYBRID DYNAMICAL; HYBRID MODEL; LEADTIME; NORTH ATLANTIC; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SENSITIVITY TESTS; SST ANOMALIES; STATISTICAL MODELS; VERTICAL WIND SHEAR; WIND SHEARS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HINDCASTING; HURRICANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WIND DIRECTION; WIND SHEAR;

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

EID: 78149438999     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL044792     Document Type: Article

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