A reanalysis of the 1944-53 atlantic hurricane seasons-the first decade of aircraft reconnaissance

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 4441-4460

  Hagen, Andrew B ^a   Strahan Sakoskie, Donna ^b   Luckett, Christopher ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aircraft observations; Atlantic Ocean; Climate records; Databases; Hurricanes typhoons; Surface observations

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATED CYCLONE ENERGIES; AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS; ATLANTIC HURRICANE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA; CLIMATE RECORD; GULF OF MEXICO; HISTORICAL ARCHIVE; LANDFALLING; REANALYSIS; SURFACE OBSERVATION; SYSTEMATIC BIAS; TRACK CHANGES; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL STORMS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT; STORMS; TROPICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

HURRICANES;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; DATABASE; ERROR CORRECTION; HURRICANE; STORM; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TYPHOON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CARIBBEAN SEA; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 84865192353     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00419.1     Document Type: Article

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