A bootstrap technique for testing the relationship between local-scale radar observations of cloud occurrence and large-scale atmospheric fields

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2813-2830

  Marchand, Roger ^a   Beagley, Nathaniel ^a   Thompson, Sandra E ^a   Ackerman, Thomas P ^a   Schultz, David M ^b  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLOUD PROPERTIES; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODELS; LARGE-SCALE ATMOSPHERIC FIELDS; LOCAL-SCALE RADAR;

CLOUDS;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLOUDS; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BOOTSTRAPPING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; MAPPING METHOD; RADAR; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

EID: 33845237622     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS3772.1     Document Type: Article

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