The sensitivity of characteristics of cyclone activity to identification procedures in tracking algorithms

Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Rudeva, Irina ^a,b   Gulev, Sergey K ^b,c   Simmonds, Ian ^a   Tilinina, Natalia ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Cyclone identification; Cyclone life cycle; IMILAST; Rapidly intensifying cyclones; Reanalysis; Synoptic climatology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944545282     PISSN: 02806495     EISSN: 16000870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/tellusa.v66.24961     Document Type: Article

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