U.S. landfalling and North Atlantic hurricanes: Statistical modeling of their frequencies and ratios

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 44-65

  Villarini, Gabriele ^a,b   Vecchi, Gabriel A ^c   Smith, James A ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b Research Network   (United Kingdom)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic Ocean; Extreme events; Hurricanes; Interannual variability; Interdecadal variability; North America; North Atlantic Oscillation; Sea surface temperature; Statistical techniques; Statistics; Trends; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EXTREME EVENTS; INTER-DECADAL VARIABILITY; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; TRENDS; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; HURRICANES; OCEANOGRAPHY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; STORMS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIME SERIES; TROPICS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ERROR CORRECTION; EXTREME EVENT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HURRICANE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; POISSON RATIO; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STORM TRACK; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862908092     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00063.1     Document Type: Article

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