A non-parametric hidden Markov model for climate state identification

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 652-667

  Lambert, Martin F ^a   Whiting, Julian P ^a   Metcalfe, Andrew V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate states; Hidden Markov models; Non parametric; Persistence; Probability distributions; Two state model

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; MARKOV CHAIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING;

EID: 1642323872     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-7-652-2003     Document Type: Article

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