Forecasting Australian drought using Southern Hemisphere modes of sea-surface temperature variability

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 24, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 1911-1927

  White, Warren B ^a   Gershunov, Alexander ^a   Annis, Jeffrey L ^a   McKeon, Greg ^b   Syktus, Jozef ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Dept of Natural Rsrc/Mines ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian drought; Canonical correlation analysis; Forecasting

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DEGRADATION; OPTIMIZATION; SEA LEVEL; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

CANONICAL CORRELATION ANALYSIS (CCA); FAUNA; FLORA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS OF SUMMER PRECIPITATION (PCP);

DROUGHT;

CANONICAL ANALYSIS; DROUGHT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH); WORLD;

EID: 11844265954     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1091     Document Type: Article

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