On sampling errors in empirical orthogonal functions

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 3704-3710

  Quadrelli, Roberta ^a   Bretherton, Christopher S ^a   Wallace, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SEA LEVEL; STATISTICAL METHODS; TROPOSPHERE;

EIGENVECTOR SAMPLING ERROR; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS (EOFS); SEA LEVEL PRESSURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EIGENVALUE; ERROR ANALYSIS; SAMPLING;

EID: 27344434686     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3500.1     Document Type: Article

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