Spatial grids for hurricane climate research

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 39, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 21-36

  Elsner, James B ^a   Hodges, Robert E ^a   Jagger, Thomas H ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographically weighted regression; Hexagon grid; Hurricane; Spatial autocorrelation; Spatial data; Tessellation

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; COASTAL ZONE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HURRICANE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STORM TRACK;

EID: 84862989507     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1066-5     Document Type: Article

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