Spatiotemporal hierarchical bayesian modeling tropical ocean surface winds

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 96, Issue 454, 2001, Pages 382-397

  Wikle, Christopher K ^a   Milliff, Ralph F ^b   Nychka, Doug ^c   Berliner, L Mark ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b Colorado Research Associates ^*  (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Combining information; Conjugate gradient algorithm; Dynamical model; Fractal process; Gibbs sampling; Numerical model; Ocean model; Satellite data; Turbulence; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542469523     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214501753168109     Document Type: Article

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