Flexible discriminant techniques for forecasting clear-air turbulence

Environmetrics

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 859-878

  Tebaldi, Claudia ^a   Nychka, Doug ^a   Brown, Barbara G ^a   Sharman, Robert ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Flexible discriminant analysis (FDA); Multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS); Neural networks (NN); Numerical weather prediction models; Probability of detection; Turbulence potential indices

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 18744384939     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.562     Document Type: Article

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