Specification of wintertime North American surface temperature

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2691-2716

  DelSole, Timothy ^a,b   Shukla, J ^a,b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

CANONICAL CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CANONICAL ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33745959173     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3704.1     Document Type: Article

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