Improvement of long-range forecasting by EEOF extrapolation using an AR-MEM model

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 311-324

  Mares, C ^a   Mares, Ileana ^a  

^a National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; EXTRAPOLATION; FUNCTIONS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AUTOREGRESSIVE (AR) MODELS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; LONG RANGE FORECAST; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

ROMANIA;

EID: 0037645972     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2003)018<0311:IOLFBE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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