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cone of uncertainty

Cone-shaped area around the forecast track of a hurricane showing uncertainty about the position of its center.

cône d'incertitude

Zone en cône autour de la trajectoire prévue d'un cyclone figurant l'incertitude sur la position de son centre.

Souvent lu à tort comme la taille de la tempête : le cône ne dit rien de l'étendue des vents (Cairo).

Classification

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Attestation

French term: Common usage, not attested by a source
English definition: Cairo, How Charts Lie, 2019

Sources (8)

19 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 1 book

Cite this entry

Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/cone-of-uncertainty.html

ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. cone of uncertainty. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/cone-of-uncertainty.html

BibTeX

@incollection{taudiere2026-cone-of-uncertainty,
  author    = {Taudière, Adrien},
  title     = {cone of uncertainty},
  booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
  year      = {2026},
  version   = {1.0.0},
  publisher = {IdEst},
  url       = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/cone-of-uncertainty.html},
  note      = {CC0 1.0}
}

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