A prediction model for atlantic named storm frequency using a year-by-year increment approach

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1842-1851

  Fan, Ke ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Atlantic Ocean; Forecasting; Hurricanes; Interannual variability; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CROSS-VALIDATION TESTS; FORECAST MODEL; HINDCASTS; HURRICANE SEASON; INCREMENTAL APPROACH; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERROR; MULTI-LINEAR REGRESSION; OPERATIONAL FORECASTING; PREDICTION MODEL; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL STORMS;

HURRICANES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STORMS; TROPICS;

FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; HINDCASTING; HURRICANE; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STORM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 78650980736     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010WAF2222406.1     Document Type: Article

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