Prediction of East African seasonal rainfall using simplex canonical correlation analysis

Journal of Climate

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2105-2112

  Ntale, Henry K ^a   Gan, Thian Yew ^a   Mwale, Davison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAIN;

VALIDATION STAGES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

FORECASTING; RAIN; WEATHER;

FORECASTING METHOD; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AFRICA;

EID: 0042847355     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<2105:POEASR>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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