Large-scale diagnostics of tropical cyclogenesis potential using environment variability metrics and logistic regression models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 6092-6107

  Waters, Jeffrey J ^a   Evans, Jenni L ^a   Forest, Chris E ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate variability; Hurricanes typhoons; Principal components analysis; Regression analysis; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY-BASED; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DYNAMIC FIELDS; DYNAMIC VARIABILITY; ENSEMBLE MEMBERS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIT RATE; LOGISTIC MODELS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS; NORTH ATLANTIC; POISSON REGRESSION MODELS; POTENTIAL INDICATORS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS; REANALYSIS; SEASONALITY; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TROPICAL CYCLOGENESIS; VARIABILITY INFORMATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; LOGISTICS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TROPICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CYCLOGENESIS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HURRICANE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TYPHOON; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84867669242     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00359.1     Document Type: Article

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