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Improving Hurricane Intensity Forecasting through Data Assimilation: Environmental Conditions Versus the Vortex Initialization

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Zhaoxia Pu

Submitted: 19 May 2010 Published: 19 April 2011

DOI: 10.5772/14224

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Recent Hurricane Research - Climate, Dynamics, and Societal Impacts

Edited by Anthony Lupo

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Written By

Zhaoxia Pu

Submitted: 19 May 2010 Published: 19 April 2011