A Statistical Analysis of Environmental Variables and Their Influence on Storm Intensity via the SHIPS Hurricane Model
Lannon McGregor
Over the past 40 years, the radar, satellite technology, statistical probability schemes, and numerical weather prediction models that meteorologists use to study and track tropical cyclones (TCs) have become increasingly advanced and refined. This has provided scientists with a clearer view of not only TCs themselves, but the environmental factors that impact them as well. The Statistical Hurricane Intensity Prediction Scheme (henceforth referred to as SHIPS) is an ocean basin statistical-dynam