Discovering associations between climatic and oceanic parameters to monitor drought in Nebraska using data-mining techniques

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1541-1550

  Tadesse, Tsegaye ^a   Wilhite, Donald A ^a   Hayes, Michael J ^a   Harms, Sherri K ^b   Goddard, Steve ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT KEARNEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA MINING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INDICATORS (INSTRUMENTS); MONITORING; OCEANOGRAPHY; OSCILLATIONS;

CLIMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HYDROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION (PDO); SOUTHERN OSCILLATION INDEX (SOI);

DROUGHT;

DATA PROCESSING; DROUGHT; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TELECONNECTION;

EID: 20544434449     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3346.1     Document Type: Article

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