Statistical Models for Tornado Climatology: Long and Short-Term Views.

This paper estimates regional tornado risk from records of past events using statistical models. First, a spatial model is fit to the tornado counts aggregated in counties with terms that control for changes in observational practices over time. Results provide a long-term view of risk that delineat...

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Main Authors: James B Elsner, Thomas H Jagger, Tyler Fricker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5119788?pdf=render