Abstract
Abstract Statistical analyses of the most recent 40 yr of hurricane tracks (1956–95) are presented, leading to a version of the North Atlantic climatology and persistence (CLIPER) model that exhibits much smaller forecast biases but similar forecast errors compared to the previously used version. Changes to the model involve the inclusion of more accurate historical tropical cyclone track data and a simpler derivation of the regression equations. Nonlinear systems analysis shows that the predictability timescale in which the average errors increase by a factor e is approximately 2.5 days in the Atlantic basin, which is larger than that found by similar methods near Australia. This suggests that 5-day tropical cyclone track forecasts may have some benefit, and therefore a version of CLIPER extended to 5 days to be used as a baseline to measure this skill is needed.
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