Sentences with phrase «statistical hurricane forecasting»

1956: Herbert Riehl and William Haggard come up with the earliest statistical hurricane forecasting system.

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ok, granted no one claims they can predict individual hurricanes or transitions in the southern oscillation, but the fact of the matter is that you have a significant statistical description of El Nino and no one bothered to include it in the 2006 forecast?

In doing so, they fail to recognize the important distinction between the operational hurricane forecasting problem (a classical initial value problem) and the boundary value problem addressed in KT04, where one is concerned with the maximum hurricane intensity that is possible for a given set of largescale environmental conditions (i.e., a climatological or statistical distribution of maximum intensities).