Considerations for use of the Barnett and Preisendorfer (1987) algorithm for canonical correlation analysis of climate variations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 303-305

  Livezey, Robert E ^a   Smith, Thomas M ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; OCEANOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

BARNETT-PREISENDORFER METHOD; CANONICAL CORRELATION ANALYSIS (CCA); PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS (PCA);

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 0032736803     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442-12.1.303     Document Type: Article

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