Seasonal forecasting of Thailand summer monsoon rainfall

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 649-664

  Singhrattna, Nkrintra ^a,b   Rajagopalan, Balaji ^a,c   Clark, Martyn ^c   Kumar, K Krishna ^c,d  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b Thailand Public Works Department   (Thailand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Ensemble forecast; ENSO; Local polynomials; Monsoon; Nonparametric methods; Seasonal forecasting; Summer rainfall; Thailand

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLYNOMIALS; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

LINEAR REGRESSION; RESOURCE PLANNING; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUMMER MONSOON RAINFALL;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FORECASTING METHOD; LONG RANGE FORECAST; MONSOON; SUMMER;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND; WORLD;

EID: 17844380279     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1144     Document Type: Article

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