The impact of best track discrepancies on global tropical cyclone climatologies using IBTrACS

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3881-3899

  Schreck, Carl J ^a,b   Knapp, Kenneth R ^b   Kossin, James P ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TROPICAL CYCLONE;

CLIMATOLOGY; HISTORICAL RECORD; SATELLITE DATA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STORM TRACK; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84907442786     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-14-00021.1     Document Type: Article

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