Cool-season precipitation in the southwestern USA since AD 1000: Comparison of linear and nonlinear techniques for reconstruction

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 22, Issue 13, 2002, Pages 1645-1662

  Ni, Fenbiao ^a   Cavazos, Tereza ^a,b   Hughes, Malcolm K ^a   Comrie, Andrew C ^a   Funkhouser, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Climate variables; Droughts; Neural networks; Southwest; Tree ring reconstructions; Wet periods

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

TREE RING CHRONOLOGIES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; REGRESSION;

EID: 0037112525     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.804     Document Type: Article

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