Hurricane clusters in the vicinity of Florida

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 869-877

  Jagger, Thomas H ^a   Elsner, James B ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hurricanes; Seasonal forecasting; Statistical forecasting; Statistical techniques; Stochastic models; Tropical variabilty

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER MODELS; CLUSTER SIZES; COVARIATES; FLORIDA; HURRICANE ACTIVITY; INVERSE-GAUSSIAN MODEL; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; SEASONAL FORECASTING; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION INDEX; STATISTICAL FORECASTING; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; TROPICAL VARIABILTY;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; FORECASTING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

HURRICANES;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD; HURRICANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POISSON RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL REGION;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864841036     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-11-0107.1     Document Type: Article

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