Tropical cyclones in reanalysis data sets

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2133-2141

  Murakami, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

JRA 55; reanalysis; tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

NASA; SEA LEVEL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; JRA-55; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; REANALYSIS; RESEARCH AND APPLICATION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

HURRICANES;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA SET; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84896550137     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL059519     Document Type: Article

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