Surface air temperature variability over Turkey and its connection to large-scale upper air circulation via multivariate techniques

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 331-350

  Tatli, Hasan ^a   Dalfes, H Nüzhet ^a   Menteş, Ş Sibel ^a  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Canonical correlation analysis; Downscaling; Monthly temperature; Redundancy analysis; Sampson correlation; Singular spectrum analysis; Turkey

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; CORRELATION METHODS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NOISE ABATEMENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

LOCAL SCALE PROCESSES; NOISE FREE DATA; SINGULAR SPECTRUM ANALYSIS (SSA);

AIR;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DOWNSCALING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; TURKEY; WORLD;

EID: 15744374432     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1133     Document Type: Article

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