Relationships between the definition of the hyperplane width to the fidelity of principal component loading patterns

Journal of Climate

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1557-1576

  Richman, Michael B ^a   Gong, Xiaofeng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FUNCTIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION;

EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; HYPERPLANE WIDTH; PARENT DISPERSION MATRIX; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT LOADING PATTERNS; SPECIFIC MATCHING COEFFICIENTS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELING; EIGENVALUE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032744128     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1999)012<1557:RBTDOT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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