An El Niño-Southern Oscillation climatology and persistence (CLIPER) forecasting scheme

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 12, Issue 3 PART II, 1997, Pages 633-647

  Knaff, John A ^a   Landsea, Christopher W ^b  

^a Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CLIMATOLOGY AND PERSISTENCE (CLIPER) FORECASTING METHOD; EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO) PHENOMENA;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EL NINO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; STATISTICAL PREDICTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0031225181     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1997)012<0633:aenoso>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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