Probabilistic discrimination between large-scale environments of intensifying and decaying African Easterly Waves

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1379-1401

  Agudelo, Paula A ^a   Hoyos, Carlos D ^b   Curry, Judith A ^b   Webster, Peter J ^b  

^a Empresas Publicas de Medellin   (Colombia)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

African Easterly Waves; Automatic tracking; Bayesian statistics; Hurricanes; Prediction; Tropical cyclogenesis

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CYCLOGENESIS; EASTERLY WAVE; HURRICANE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STORM TRACK; VORTICITY; WIND;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 79953660661     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0851-x     Document Type: Article

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