Predicting hurricane intensity and structure changes associated with eyewall replacement cycles

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 484-488

  Kossin, James P ^a,b   Sitkowski, Matthew ^b  

^a NOAA NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Hurricanes; In situ observations; Operational forecasting; Satellite observations; Statistical forecasting

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLOUD STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FEATURES; EYEWALL; HURRICANE INTENSITY; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; INTENSITY FLUCTUATIONS; MODEL INPUTS; OPERATIONAL FORECASTING; OPERATIONAL GUIDANCE; REPLACEMENT CYCLES; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; STATISTICAL FORECASTING; STATISTICAL MODELS; STRUCTURE CHANGE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND STRUCTURE;

CLIMATOLOGY; HURRICANES;

FORECASTING;

CLIMATOLOGY; HURRICANE; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; STORM TRACK; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND FIELD; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84862981052     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-11-00106.1     Document Type: Article

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