A weibull approach for improving climate model projections of tropical cyclone wind-speed distributions

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 6119-6133

  Tye, Mari R ^a   Stephenson, David B ^b   Holland, Greg J ^a   Katz, Richard W ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; FORECASTING; HURRICANES; WIND;

ADAPTATION STRATEGIES; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; MAXIMUM WIND SPEED; PSEUDO-OBSERVATIONS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; SCALE AND SHAPE PARAMETERS; WIND SPEED DISTRIBUTION;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

CLIMATE MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; POWER LAW; PROBABILITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEIBULL THEORY; WIND FORCING; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84905908628     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00121.1     Document Type: Article

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