A new statistical model for predicting seasonal north Atlantic Hurricane activity

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 730-741

  Davis, Kyle ^a   Zeng, Xubin ^a   Ritchie, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hurricanes typhoons; Multidecadal variability; Regression analysis; Statistical forecasting; Time series

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; FORECASTING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; OCEANOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; SURFACE WATERS; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITIES; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HURRICANES/TYPHOONS; MULTIDECADAL VARIABILITY; MULTIVARIATE ENSO INDICES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; STATISTICAL FORECASTING;

HURRICANES;

DECADAL VARIATION; HURRICANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TYPHOON; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84942789058     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-14-00156.1     Document Type: Article

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