NOAA'S hurricane intensity forecasting experiment: A progress report

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 859-882

  Rogers, Robert ^a   Aberson, Sim ^a   Aksoy, Altug ^b   Annane, Bachir ^b   Black, Michael ^a   Cione, Joseph ^a   Dorst, Neal ^a   Dunion, Jason ^b   Gamache, John ^a   Goldenberg, Stan ^a   Gopalakrishnan, Sundararaman ^a   Kaplan, John ^a   Klotz, Bradley ^b   Lorsolo, Sylvie ^b   Marks, Frank ^a   Murillo, Shirley ^a   Powell, Mark ^a   Reasor, Paul ^a   Sellwood, Kathryn ^b   Uhlhorn, Eric ^a   Vukicevic, Tomislava ^a   Zhang, Jun ^b   Zhang, Xuejin ^b   more..

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HURRICANE INTENSITY FORECASTING; INTENSITY PREDICTION; MEASUREMENT STRATEGIES; MODEL INITIALIZATION; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PREDICTION OF TROPICAL CYCLONE; REAL TIME MONITORING;

HURRICANES; SCHEDULING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84876272149     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00089.1     Document Type: Article

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