Imilast: A community effort to intercompare extratropical cyclone detection and tracking algorithms

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 529-547

  Neu, Urs ^a   Akperov, Mirseid G ^b   Bellenbaum, Nina ^c   Benestad, Rasmus ^d   Blender, Richard ^e   Caballero, Rodrigo ^f   Cocozza, Angela ^g   Dacre, Helen F ^h   Feng, Yang ⁱ   Fraedrich, Klaus ^e   Grieger, Jens ^j   Gulev, Sergey ^k   Hanley, John ^f   Hewson, Tim ^l,m   Inatsu, Masaru ⁿ   Keay, Kevin ^o   Kew, Sarah F ^p   Kindem, Ina ^q   Leckebusch, Gregor C ^r   Liberato, Margarida L R ^s,t   Lionello, Piero ^g   Mokhov, Igor I ^b   Pinto, Joaquim G ^c   Raible, Christoph C ^u   Reale, Marco ^g   Rudeva, Irina ^o,v   Schuster, Mareike ^j   Simmonds, Ian ^o   Sinclair, Mark ^w   Sprenger, Michael ^x   Tilinina, Natalia D ^k   Trigo, Isabel F ^s   Ulbrich, Sven ^c   Ulbrich, Uwe ^j   Wang, Xiaolan L ⁱ   Wernli, Heini ^x   more..

^a Akademie der Naturwissenschaften Schweiz   (Switzerland)

^b OBUKHOV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^f STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^j FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^k MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^l EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^m MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^o UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^p ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^q BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^r UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^s UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^t UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^u UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^v SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^w EMBRY RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^x ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLONE TRACKS; DETECTION AND TRACKING ALGORITHMS; EUROPEAN CENTER FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONES; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERCOMPARISONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

ALGORITHMS; EXPERIMENTS; LIFE CYCLE; TRACKING (POSITION); WEATHER FORECASTING;

STORMS;

EID: 84876988513     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00154.1     Document Type: Article

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