Measuring environmental favorability for tropical cyclogenesis by statistical analysis of threshold parameters

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 5968-5997

  McGauley, Michael G ^a   Nolan, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyclogenesis cyclolysis; Numerical analysis modeling; Statistical forecasting; Tropics; Vorticity; Wind shear

Indexed keywords

CYCLOGENESIS; DATA SETS; DOWN-SCALING; EQUATION BASED; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; NORMALIZED SATURATION DEFICITS; REANALYSIS; STATISTICAL FORECASTING; STATISTICAL PROBABILITY; THRESHOLD PARAMETERS; TROPICAL CYCLOGENESIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VERTICAL PROFILE; WIND SHEAR; WIND SHEARS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORECASTING; HURRICANES; STORMS; TROPICS; VORTICITY;

STATISTICS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CYCLOGENESIS; DATA SET; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VORTICITY; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND SHEAR;

EID: 83755195429     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI4176.1     Document Type: Article

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