A statistical method for forecasting rainfall over Puerto Rico

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 515-525

  Carter, M M ^a   Elsner, J B ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FACTOR ANALYSIS REGIONALIZATION; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ETA MODEL; FORECAST SKILL; RAINFALL; STATISTICAL METHOD; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER SURVEILLANCE RADAR;

PUERTO RICO;

EID: 0031225028     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1997)012<0515:ASMFFR>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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