Objective Measures of Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Formation from Satellite Infrared Imagery

This document proposes an objective technique to estimate the intensity and predict the formation of tropical cyclones using infrared satellite imagery. As the tropical cyclone develops from an unstructured cloud cluster and intensifies the cloud structures become more axisymmetric around an identif...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pineros, Miguel F.
Other Authors: Ritchie, Elizabeth A
Language:EN
Published: The University of Arizona. 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194345