On the limits of estimating the maximum wind speeds in hurricanes

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2814-2837

  Nolan, David S ^a   Zhang, Jun A ^b   Uhlhorn, Eric W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEMOMETERS; ERRORS; HURRICANES; STORMS;

ATLANTIC HURRICANE; MAXIMUM WIND SPEED; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERROR; OBSERVATIONAL ERRORS; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; SURFACE WIND SPEED; TROPICAL STORMS;

WIND;

ANEMOMETER; ERROR ANALYSIS; HURRICANE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PEAK FLOW; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84905687122     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00337.1     Document Type: Article

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