Analogue forecasting of New Zealand climate anomalies

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 485-504

  Mullan, A Brett ^a   Thompson, Craig S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Analogues; Bootstrap cross validation; ENSO; EOF analysis; Long range forecasting; New Zealand; Rainfall; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SEA LEVEL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BOOTSTRAP CROSS-VALIDATION; CLIMATE ANOMALIES; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION ANALYSIS; LONG-RANGE FORECASTING; NEW ZEALAND; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEA-LEVEL PRESSURE PATTERNS; SEASONAL TEMPERATURE FORECASTS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ANOMALY; BOOTSTRAPPING; FORECASTING METHOD; RAINFALL;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 33645474001     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1261     Document Type: Article

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