Atlantic hurricane database uncertainty and presentation of a new database format

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3576-3592

  Landsea, Christopher W ^a   Franklin, James L ^a  

^a NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic Ocean; Databases; Error analysis; Hurricanes; Hurricanes typhoons

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC HURRICANE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC; FORECAST IMPROVEMENTS; FORECAST PRODUCTS; HURRICANES/TYPHOONS; SUBTROPICAL CYCLONES; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATES;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; HURRICANES; STORMS; SURVEYS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DATABASE; ERROR ANALYSIS; HURRICANE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TYPHOON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84884941860     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00254.1     Document Type: Article

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