Using clustered climate regimes to analyze and compare predictions from fully coupled general circulation models

Earth Interactions

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Hoffman, Forrest M ^a   Hargrove Jr , William W ^a   Erickson III, David J ^a   Oglesby, Robert J ^b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Clustering; Multivariate Spatio temporal Clustering; Parallel Climate Model; PCM

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; CLUSTERING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERISTIC; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL DECISIONS; PARALLEL CLIMATE MODEL; SPATIO-TEMPORAL CLUSTERING; STATISTICAL CLUSTERING TECHNIQUE;

FORECASTING; GREENHOUSE GASES; PHASE SPACE METHODS; PULSE CODE MODULATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 33646717210     PISSN: 10873562     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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