Predictive skills of seasonal to annual rainfall variations in the U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands: Canonical correlation analysis and multivariate principal component regression approaches

Journal of Climate

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2586-2599

  Yu, Zhi Ping ^a   Chu, Pao Shin ^b   Schroeder, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CANONICAL CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CLIMATE PREDICTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; LA NINA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT REGRESSION; RAINFALL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

GUAM; MARIANA ISLANDS; MARSHALL ISLANDS; MICRONESIA, FEDERATED STATES OF;

EID: 0031426485     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1997)010<2586:PSOSTA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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