Assessing the predictability of extreme rainfall seasons over southern Africa

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Landman, Willem A ^a,b   Botes, Stephanie ^a   Goddard, Lisa ^c   Shongwe, Mxolisi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN WEATHER SERVICE   (South Africa)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RAIN; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CANONICAL CORRELATION ANALYSIS (CCA); MODEL OUTPUT STATISTICS (MOS); RAINFALL SEASONS;

METEOROLOGY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; EXTREME EVENT; FORECASTING METHOD; PREDICTION; RAINFALL;

AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 31544439858     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023965     Document Type: Article

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