Classification of thunderstorm and non-thunderstorm days in Calcutta (India) on the basis of linear discriminant analysis

Atmosfera

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-12

  Ghosh, S ^a   Sen, P K ^b   De, U K ^a  

^a Atmospheric Science Research Group   (India)

^b JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Conditional instability; Convective instability; Equivalent potential temperature; Linear discriminant analysis; Principal component analysis; Saturated equivalent potential temperature

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; FORECASTING METHOD; INDEX METHOD; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; THUNDERSTORM;

ASIA; CALCUTTA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; WEST BENGAL;

EID: 1642488312     PISSN: 01876236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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