Cyclone center can citizen scientists improve tropical cyclone intensity records?

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 591-607

  Hennon, Christopher C ^a   Knapp, Kenneth R ^b   Schreck, Carl J ^c   Stevens, Scott E ^c   Kossin, James P ^b,d   Thorne, Peter W ^e,h   Hennon, Paula A ^c   Kruk, Michael C ^b   Rennie, Jared ^c   Gadéa, Jean Maurice ^f   Striegl, Maximilian ^g   Carley, Ian ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE   (United States)

^b NOAA NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^f NOAA/National Climatic Data Center ^*  (Australia)

^g Department of Geography ^*  (Germany)

^h NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HURRICANES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

CROWD SOURCING; CYCLONE CENTER; INTERNET PORTALS; ORDINARY PEOPLE; SATELLITE IMAGES; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL CYCLONE INTENSITY;

STORMS;

EID: 84930460235     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00152.1     Document Type: Article

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