Predicting spring tornado activity in the central great plains by 1 march

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 259-267

  Elsner, James B ^a   Widen, Holly M ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PATTERN; BAYESIAN FORMULATION; CENTRAL GREAT PLAINS; LAPLACIAN APPROXIMATIONS; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; NON-STATIONARITIES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); STATISTICAL MODELING;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

TORNADOES;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE MODELING; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MODEL TEST; PREDICTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPRING (SEASON); TORNADO; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA; GREAT PLAINS; GULF OF ALASKA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84892451446     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00014.1     Document Type: Article

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