A comparison study of EOF techniques: Analysis of nonstationary data with periodic statistics

Journal of Climate

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 185-199

  Kim, Kwang Y ^a   Wu, Qigang ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FUNCTIONS; GEOPHYSICS; MODAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TROPICS;

EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS (EOF); PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS (PCA); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL METHOD; PREDICTION;

EID: 0033018723     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442-12.1.185     Document Type: Article

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