Statistical-dynamical seasonal forecast of north atlantic and U.S. landfalling tropical cyclones using the high-resolution GFDL FLOR coupled model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 144, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2101-2123

  Murakami, Hiroyuki ^a   Villarini, Gabriele ^b   Vecchi, Gabriel A ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a   Gudgel, Richard ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; HURRICANES; STORMS;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; DYNAMICAL PREDICTIONS; FUZZY C MEAN CLUSTERING; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; LANDFALLING TROPICAL CYCLONES; SEASONAL FORECASTS; STATISTICAL-DYNAMICAL;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CORRELATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 84974794811     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-15-0308.1     Document Type: Article

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