Objective identification of tornado seasons and ideal spatial smoothing Radii

Earth Interactions

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Dixon, P Grady ^a   Mercer, Andrew E ^a   Grala, Katarzyna ^a   Cooke, William H ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Spatial analysis; Statistical climatology; Tornadoes

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; STORMS;

OBJECTIVE IDENTIFICATION; OBJECTIVE METHODS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL EXTENT; SPATIAL SMOOTHING; STATISTICAL CLIMATOLOGIES; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL PATTERN;

TORNADOES;

CLIMATOLOGY; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TORNADO;

EID: 84892744315     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2013EI000559.1     Document Type: Article

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