Testing the performance of three nonlinear methods of time series analysis for prediction and downscaling of European daily temperatures

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 979-991

  Miksovsky, Jiri ^a   Raidl, A ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 30744440632     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-12-979-2005     Document Type: Article

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