2010 Western North Pacific typhoon season: Seasonal overview and forecast using a track-pattern-based model

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 730-743

  Kim, Joo Hong ^a   Ho, Chang Hoi ^b   Kim, Hyeong Seog ^b   Choi, Woosuk ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORECASTS; CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; FORECAST SYSTEMS; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; RAPID TRANSITIONS; SOUTH KOREA; TRACK DENSITY; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TYPHOON CENTER; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

CLIMATE MODELS; HURRICANES; NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

FORECASTING;

CYCLOGENESIS; FORECASTING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEASONALITY; TYPHOON; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84868309483     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-11-00109.1     Document Type: Article

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